With the dawn of Tuesday, July 8, 2025, Israel was on a date with a resounding security shock in the northern Gaza Strip, when the Palestinian resistance carried out an ambush in the Beit Hanoun area that killed and wounded about 20 Israeli soldiers, in an attack that is one of the most violent and most accurate strikes since the outbreak of the Israeli war in October 2023.
Residents of the city of Ashkelon heard the “Big Bang”, according to the Israeli websites, which said that one of the injured was a senior officer.
The Israeli media – who talked about the findings of completely burning bodies of soldiers who were lost in the ambush – said this event is one of the most difficult events that soldiers have been subjected to since the beginning of the war.
The ambush did not stop at its field dimensions. What is the location of this shift in the map of war and negotiations together?
An intelligence gap in the army
The Palestinian resistance ambush showed the size of the erosion in the operational structure of the Israeli army, as testimonies within the Israeli media were repeated about a “miserable intelligence failure” that allowed the resistance to plant packages and booby -trapped areas of the entry of soldiers without early detection.
Military analyst Ron bin Yishai -in a report published by the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot. Quantity in Hanoun It was intelligently planned, and it reveals a failure in air and intelligence control despite the presence of Israeli drones in the sky.
The Israeli channel “Kan 11” also quoted a field officer in the Nahhal Brigade as saying, “The soldiers fell into a complex ambush … the first explosive device blew the armored vehicle, after which shells were fired at the soldiers’ tanker and D9, then the evacuation team was targeted … we did not expect this multi -stage scenario.”
The daily report of the Israeli army referred to 5 dead, and about 17 wounded, including officers. The search is still ongoing for 3 missing soldiers, amid reports of the possibility of their kidnapping before Al -Qassam Brigades The military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
The targeted soldiers are followed by the power of the 97th Battalion.Judea righteousnessThe “Kfir” brigade, according to preliminary investigations, was crossing the road on foot and a mine was detonated from a distance.
Political leadership on the impact of division and confusion
The southern Israeli army started an investigation into the incident, and the Prime Minister was informed Benjamin Netanyahu (What is required for the International Criminal) is a statement of the incident while he was in the White House, according to what was reported by the Israeli media.
Netanyahu’s office to call for an emergency session of the mini -mini council, amid media reports stating an internal division about the required form of response, where the ministers of the extremist right, such as security ministers, Itetar bin Ghafir, pay the finances, and the finances. Smotrich Towards a wide retaliatory response in northern Gaza, while military leaders are reserving them on the escalation of the expansion of losses.
“The attack came at a sensitive political timing that intersects with negotiations in Doha, and the field escalation may abort any negotiation progress on the hostages,” Israeli Channel 12 quoted security sources as saying.
The opposition leader, Yair Lubid, held Prime Minister Netanyahu responsible for the continuation of the “leadership failure”, noting that “the political doctrine of the government lost its balance in front of a resistance that knows when to strike” adding “after Khan Yunis, we said that the army needs to be re -evaluated, and here we are surprised at House Hanoun … from the following? Ashkelon?”.
The Palestinian resistance operations have escalated dramatically during the past weeks, and led to the killing and injury of dozens of soldiers and officers in different areas of the Palestinian sector.
Last June was the bloodiest in ranks occupation army Where 20 soldiers and officers were killed and others were injured, which was confirmed by Israeli media last week.
The American and regional position between warning and containing
Beit Hanoun’s ambush coincided with the political movement to reach an understanding that guarantees cease-fire And the exchange of prisoners.
The United States did not immediately comment on the event, but the Israeli newspaper Haaretz indicated that “the Trump administration sent a message” to Tel Aviv requesting “calm and avoiding escalation,” adding that Washington does not see an interest in a large -scale military operation in the north that might complicate the negotiation path.
In the same context, Al -Jazeera channel quoted diplomatic sources as saying, “No mediation will succeed if Israel continues to kill and evade humanitarian benefits … The resistance has field pressure papers.”
As for Cairo, it adopted a cautious silence, contented with intensifying security coordination with Gaza and Tel Aviv, in an indication of anxiety about the escape of the field situation.
Breaking the doctrine of deterrence
The resistance read the success of the ambush as a turning point in the long war path. The Al -Qassam Brigades issued a brief statement saying “in a qualitative process in Beit Hanoun, our Mujahideen succeeded in targeting a disturbing Zionist force … and we will not reveal all the details now” in a hint that they have papers that have not yet been announced.
Media analyzes close to the resistance indicated that this process is not isolated, but rather came as part of the “extended ambushes” tactics, that is, the repeated attack in one area through stages to disrupt the ability of the occupation army to persevere.
Also, the timing of the operation, in parallel with the efforts of calm, is understood in the context of seeking to strengthen the negotiating paper of the resistance, especially if it is proven that the presence of neighborhood prisoners in its hand.
Many in Israeli circles ask today: Did the army lose the initiative? Was the Palestinian resistance dictating the engagement schedule?
The Israeli newspaper Maariv quoted a senior security official that “what is happening since the beginning of July indicates a defect in the doctrine of deterrence, as the resistance has chosen time and space, and Israel fails to contain it quickly.”
For their part, Palestinian experts believe that “real deterrence is not in the missiles, but in preventing the enemy from stationing and remaining safe in the field”. In this sense, the Bit Hanoun ambush redefined deterrence from the concept of air strikes to the ability of the field attrition.
The Bayt Hanoun ambush is not a circumstantial blow, but rather a strategic development that reflects a deliberate escalation by the Palestinian resistance, in light of a sensitive negotiating environment.
On the other hand, Israel, which was unable to impose deterrent equation despite hundreds of raids and incursions today, is facing a three -dimensional predicament, represented by the loss of soldiers, the vibration of popular trust and the pressure of international allies.
The resistance appears in an offensive situation, which invests the field and mediation at the same time, to draw the features of the end of the war according to more just conditions.