Analysis of Gaza Conflict After October Attack

Engaging the enemy, striving for victory. We are prepared for the next stage.

I don't know a better definition than victory.

They are on the run, and— we need to keep pressing on

their neck.

Two years and nine months after the October 7 massacre, in the Gaza

Strip, the signs of war are clearly visible.

Entire neighborhoods lie in ruins, and the unrecognizable landscape illustrates

the heavy toll the Strip has paid since the terror attack by

Hamas.

An important thing: neighborhoods like Diyaliya,

Shejaiya, which we only, uh, partially controlled,

are destroyed, devastated.

How are you?

Good.

We're at four, close to home.

Close to home. Come on, after you.

Yesterday, we joined Defense Minister Israel Katz on a tour of the northern Gaza Strip,

along with Southern Command Chief Yanir Asor, Deputy Chief of Staff Tamir

Yadai, 99th Division Commander Brigadier General Yoav Brunner,

and Northern Brigade Commander Colonel Omri Mashiach.

To the north, you have the…

And we are clearing the area and operating in it.

Minister, seeing Gaza devastated like this, what do you feel?

What do I feel?

Yes.

Feels good. What do you want? What? It's all the result of a deliberate

policy,

meant to remove threats instead of the raid method— going in,

coming out, and Hamas returns.

The IDF is inside,

they are lying outside, and the houses are destroyed.

The commanders presented the war's achievements, the continuation of operational

activity, and the severe blow to Hamas's capabilities.

This is what the sector looks like: essentially, there's the rear area where

the communities are, the holding area where we deploy, we

operate in the security area. That's the meteor line you see in blue.

Today we're in defense and destroying military infrastructure above ground

and underground,

but also pursuing them and eliminating them.

Just recently, during Roaring Lion, with 300 eliminations

in the Strip,

there are two military wing leaders,

battalion commanders, company commanders.

I don't know how to describe this as a lack of victory.

When you control 66— 65% of the territory,

when 70,000,

uh, terrorists were killed here, with most of the population on the beach

already, uh, since the start of their second summer there.

that the IDF is inside the Strip in different numbers than what

th-that there were,

that there is total freedom of action here.

We are not moving from the yellow line

despite the campaign.

As long as Hamas and so on does not disarm.

The fighters and commanders we met in the field also spoke of the fighting spirit, of

the high motivation and determination to continue until completing

the mission to defeat the enemy.

The spirit is good, morale is high.

Excellent command. We did a lot fighting in Jabalya.

I want you to know there is a tremendous spirit here of reservists, of

active-duty soldiers,

and if there is wear and tear, there is 200 times the determination,

and that is the most important thing.

You,

uh, give us a lot of strength knowing we have someone to rely on,

and I really want to say

to you again, uh, to thank you with very deep appreciation.

From the outpost to significant underground infrastructure.

You can go down, you can run into it.

This,

Minister, this is actually the main route, that is where we found

it.

Water tanks they store, but the water pipe

comes from the houses above.

Yes.

This is also a restroom on the left, a water tank on the right, a toilet,

a sink.

And it continues into the tunnels.

Diseases.

Yes.

Does it reach all the way to the— really? Like it's supposed to flow?

We blew it up, yes, but it reached all the way to the diseases.

The message emerging from the joint visit in terms of the political echelon and the

military command is that the campaign launched following the October 7 massacre

has not yet ended.

In the end, this place is demilitarized,

and ultimately, um,

there is no Hamas here.

We are not retreating from the Yellow Line,

unequivocally, as long as Hamas does not

genuinely disarm, and even after that, we remain in the north.

Bringing up three Nahal core groups, which are also a military entity,

uh, to the same places that were in the northern Gaza Strip,

to improve the hold and defense of the communities is also something that is

called for in the right way, at the right timing, amid insane attacks.

Not to be, uh, arrogant, God forbid, but

we are here with all our strength.

Will,

uh, Osra or Osar be from a raid?

God help us if not.

In Syria, in Lebanon, in Gaza, in Iran,

in Yemen, everywhere, also inside Judea and Samaria, against

enemies—not containing, not waiting, not

Ducking down. Exactly the opposite of what it's been until now.