https://wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-toll-thus-far-falls-shor…
Israeli forces have killed 20% to 30% of Hamas’s fighters, U.S. intelligence agencies estimate, a toll that falls short so far of Israel’s goal of destroying the group and shows its resilience after months of war that have laid swaths of the Gaza Strip to ruin.
The U.S. estimate of the group’s casualties also found that Hamas still has enough munitions to continue striking Israel and Israeli forces in Gaza for months, and that the group is attempting to reconstitute its police force in parts of Gaza City, according to U.S. officials who confirmed a classified report.
Israeli officials have conceded that, despite an aggressive air and ground campaign inside Gaza that has killed thousands of civilians, they haven’t achieved their goal of destroying Hamas, which has run Gaza since ousting the Palestinian Authority in 2007. The group’s fighters have adjusted their tactics, operating in smaller groups and hiding between ambushes on Israeli troops, while individual fighters are likely taking on more tasks to pick up the slack from their dead comrades, military analysts said.
TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN CITIZENS BEFORE YOU HELP OTHER COUNTRYS, THE PEOPLE IN AMERICA ARE SUFFERING SO STOP FIGHTING FOR OTHER COUNTRYS CITIZENS
@FitzGibbonRepublican4mos4MO
Agreed. We do need to keep are presence in the middle east though. Look at what pulling out of Afghanistan did. We got the taliban back in control of the government.( Not to mention they where the ones that backed and gave refuge to al qaeda who attacked on 9/11)
If we don't keep American presence in areas with key interest It will in the long run hurt the American Economy.
@CuriousM4jority4mos4MO
US Military in the middle east = $6/gallon gas.
No US military in middle east = $50/gallon gas
@AmbitiousActivist4mos4MO
US Military in the middle east = $6/gallon gas.
No US military in middle east = $50/gallon gas
@DiscerningPenguinRepublican4mos4MO
Any failures to this point show a lot more about the constraints put on Israel by the Biden administration than it does about the resilience of Hamas. I guess this means the war goes on. Maybe the gloves need to come back off
@P4rtyBobolinkGreen4mos4MO
This is a common argument but not self-evidently true. If Hamas emerges "victorious" it will likely recruit effectively. But if Hamas is defeated and discredited, the Palestinian suffering that they brought Gaza will be laid at Hamas's feet.
Not only were Nazis less popular in Germany in 1946, but they were less popular in 1944 and 1945 once German cities felt the devastation that war had brought them.
Sadly, it is only a communal sense of devastation and defeat that is likely to "reform" a toxic culture like that which exists in Gaza.
@C1v1cDutyBisonGreen4mos4MO
Across the Muslim world the events of the last four months will lead to far more terrorists being recruited than will have been killed irrespective of when the current iteration of hostilities ends.
Thomas Friedman, decades ago, referred to this unpleasant reality as:
10 - 2 = 12.
So what does all of this really mean, in 2024?
It means that there is just too much danger for Israel in having a Palestinian state adjacent. The very idea is and always was ludicrous and it is now dead. Bibi knows it well and is unashamed to state the obvious publicly and repeatedly.
@eXecutiveTacosRepublican4mos4MO
Falls short because Israel is fighting a war with both hands tied behind their backs while Hamas is fighting like a Middle Eastern terrorist group does, hiding behind women and children.
@VengefulJellyfishGreen4mos4MO
More than 65,000 tonnes of bombs have been dropped on Gaza, causing the destruction of over 33% of buildings in Gaza--doesn't strike me as having their hands tied in the least!
@DuckDennyDemocrat4mos4MO
If much of Gaza City and other areas have been destroyed, please explain to me what the Hamas police are patrolling - rubble? The story is internally inconsistent. You cannot have it both ways. Either there are sufficient buildings and neighborhoods left to patrol or there are not.
@AboardCoyoteGreen4mos4MO
I suspect it is to ensure no more property is seized.
@9J8ZS7F 4mos4MO
We are all human. People are dying. Eliminate race, religion, background, this is wrong. How is the human race as a whole supposed to evolve when we kill each other over what exactly? History is repeating itself and we all know violence leads to nowhere but more violence, we need new broad thinkers , and empathic leaders in these positions that cause these tragedies .
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
Precisely, it’s time for a ceasefire, whatever was conquered needs some aid for the civilians. Hamas has been drastically weakened, and right now, we can afford not to try and crush them at the cost of civilians.
@TroubledMuesliGreen4mos4MO
Hamas will never be "defeated."
See the results of the Iraq war
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
Never said it had to be, that’s why I said weakened.
@9J949P34mos4MO
My perspective is that Israel if finally fighting and defending herself
@9J8TT8QRepublican4mos4MO
Israel is backed by several foreign nations and has been given access to equipment that could easily wipe out Hamas. Hamas struck first, and they chose to do so. I do not agree with the deaths of innocent Palestinians, however, I will not condone the actions of terrorists.
@9J8TRNH4mos4MO
It needs to be directed towards other things too like the things going on in the Congo
@9J8TKKQ4mos4MO
Countries should grow balls and stop Isreal from this genocide
@MusselMike4mos4MO
The article is a little confusing.
Evidently, Hamas had 25,000 to 30,000 fighters before the war. According to Israel, the IDF has killed an estimated 10,000 Hamas fighters; another 16,000 have been wounded. -- half of these have been taken out of the fight permanently.
In sum, about 26,000 Hamas fighters have been killed or wounded. Those are enormous casualty numbers especially when measured against Israeli casualties of only about 200. This hardly qualifies Hamas as resilient; it is more accurate to say that Hamas' forces have been rapidly decimated or destroyed.
The war has been going on...
I just think it's the most important on the list
@9J8N38Q4mos4MO
Israel and Palestine are recking each other, specifically Israel to Palestine and it tearing them apart
@ISIDEWITH4mos4MO
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