18/7/2025–|Last update: 00:06 (Mecca time)
The operation failed Gideon vehicles Israeli military in Gaza Strip In achieving its strategic goals, it has become the most factor in the history Israeli army – According to Israeli analysts- despite the announcement of the Israeli military leadership to achieve all its goals and extend control of 75% of the sector’s area.
Military experts and political analysts assert that “Gideon’s vehicles” did not translate political goals into real military achievements, according to the military and strategic expert, Brigadier Elias Hanna, and did not achieve political goals despite the huge capabilities allocated to them.
With regard to the last thing that the Israeli army announced, “Gideon’s vehicles” have completely achieved their targets, after the Israeli forces extended control of 75% of the Gaza area.
The Israeli Chief of Staff sought Eyal Zamir To reassure the Israelis, pledging to them that the army guarantees that the Strip does not pose any threat to Israel.
From a military point of view, there is a fundamental difference between the ability to enter certain areas and actual control over them.
On the ground, the Palestinian resistance is still fighting Hanoun to Shuja’ia to Khan YunisAnd even in the border areas that were supposed to be safe.
Despite the allegations of the occupation that it took control of three quarters of the lands in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian resistance launched a missile attack on Thursday, targeting the Gaza cover, which refutes the allegations of the occupation to control the Strip, as the missiles were fired from the lands that the occupation claims to have become free from the resistance and that it is in its grip.
And not only that, but the military expert Elias Hanna believes that cutting the occupation to the sector into multiple areas such as Morag In addition to other regions, Majan Oz confirms that complete control is not achieved, and entering a specific area and staying in it provides more goals for the resistance instead of achieving the required safety.
Political dimension
With regard to the political dimension of the Gideon vehicle process, there are those who see that the operation was an ideological basis, not a tight military strategy, and that the real goal was the occupation of the Gaza Strip and the displacement of the population to the south without any clear political horizon.
Despite all the capabilities and circumstances allocated to this process, such as changing the Minister of Defense and the Commander of the Staff, the cancellation of the American ban on weapons, and the allocation of huge budgets in March 2025 budget, it did not achieve its goals, and its basic weakness was in its wrong timing, according to the expert in the Israeli affairs Muhannad Mustafa.
From Mustafa’s point of view, the political and social context in May 2025 is radically different from October 2023, which prevented the success of the process due to the absence of political and social consensus around it, especially as it was classified as an ideological process and not a necessary defensive process.
Israeli thinking was limited to how to transform the military operation into a political reality in the Gaza Strip without regard to the issue of Israeli prisoners, the ceasefire or any other political solutions, which led to the ultimate thwarting the operation.
Militarily, the occupation army became suffering from the continuous attrition of its capabilities, and it became tired and depleted after 21 months of continuous fighting, and the attrition on the human element did not stop, but rather included equipment and ammunition, which needs comprehensive rehabilitation.
For these reasons, Hanna believes that the Gaza Strip has become the primary burden and the great obstacle in front of any Israeli regional project, explaining that this war in 365 square kilometers is a cities war with distinction and not just a guerrilla war as promoted.
The Israeli army moved to a completely different security level after October 7, 2023, according to Hanna, who believes that this new strategy requires huge capabilities that are not commensurate with the actual capabilities, which calls for a comprehensive restructuring that includes amending the army’s composition and strengthening its forces.
It was the Israeli mini security cabinetCabIn early May 2025, a “Gideon” operation plan approved with the aim of achieving a military and political decisiveness in the Gaza Strip, through an organized operation of 3 stages, with 5 pressure factors against the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitationIn an attempt to force her to accept an agreement to exchange prisoners and dismantle her military structure.
The Israeli army began implementing it by summoning tens of thousands of reserve soldiers, and the operation aims to occupy the entire Gaza Strip, according to what it reported. Israeli Broadcasting Corporation Official on May 5, 2025.