29/6/2025–|Last update: 19:34 (Mecca time)
Military and strategic expert, Colonel Hatem Karim Al -Falahi, said that the killing of a soldier from the Israeli combat engineering battalion “601”, which is affiliated with the 401th Brigade within the 162nd Division, represents a painful blow to the forces Israeli occupationThis battalion belongs to what is known as the “specialized forces” that are indispensable in land operations.
Al -Falahi explained – in an analysis of the military scene in the Gaza Strip – that the role of this battalion is a pivotal in opening roads, and the removal of mines and obstacles to the progress of armored and automatic units, which makes them an integral part of the strategy of the ground incursion pursued by the occupation army within the so -called “Gideon vehicles”.
The Israeli army announced the killing of one of its soldiers during the northern battles Gaza StripIn conjunction with violent confrontations that took place in the vicinity Khan YunisWhere Israeli media spoke about a “serious security event” followed by a heavy exchange of fire, without allowing the deployment of additional details due to military censorship.
According to Colonel Al -Falahi, the ongoing military operation aims to impose political and military resolution inside Gaza, by destroying the resistance infrastructure, but the field performance revealed a major deficit.
Real dilemma
He said that the Israeli army incurred heavy and material losses, which constitutes a real dilemma for the occupation forces, especially when the losses relate to forces that cannot be compensated during the progress of operations.
Al -Falahi pointed out that the brevity offered by the leaders of the Israeli army requires an accurate offer to the size of the military achievement in exchange for losses, especially with the announcement of control over about 75% of the lands, a percentage that raises questions about the expensive price paid in exchange for this progress.
Calm, I announced Al -Qassam Brigades The military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation– It targeted an Israeli military bulldozer tower with the “Yassin 105” shell, which led to the burning of it, east of Khan Yunis, and gatherings of the occupation soldiers bombed with mortar shells.
While she said Al -Quds Brigades – The military wing of the jihad movement- it destroyed a mechanism east of the city with a barrel bee.
Al -Falahi saw that targeting the engineering brigades disrupts the combat sequence that the occupation adopts, as it is assumed that the special forces or infantry enter the land to secure the land before the advancement of the engineering units, but this matter appears to be suspended by the limitations of the available regular forces, and the low capabilities of the reserve teams in fighting street battles in this range.
He pointed out that the Israeli army depends mainly on two regular divisions, 36 and 162, and is based on reserve units, which have proven their inability to keep pace with the requirements of war within a complex urban environment, which was reflected in the decline in the combat performance of the occupier in the battles of the past two days.
The occupation faces a continuous escalation from the resistance factions that intensified its qualitative operations, and installed court ambushes that killed and wounded in the ranks of the Israeli army, as well as the destruction of hundreds of mechanisms and the damage of them since the start of the land operation in Gaza on October 27, 2023.
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In a related context, Al -Falahi said that Tel Aviv indicates that June is the “bloodiest” month for her a year ago, when 21 soldiers were killed during it, highlighting the complications facing the occupation forces in achieving their goals.
But Al -Falahi saw that the use of the description of the “bloodiest” applies primarily to Palestinian civilians, especially in the early stages of the war, which witnessed intense air and artillery shelling targeting hundreds of targets inside the sector, before moving to the stage of mixing incursion and bombing.
He added that the occupation, despite its progress in the land operations with the aim of reducing losses, was unable to stop the number of deaths in its ranks, as a result of the effective resistance tactics that showed a clear superiority in the complex environments within the sector, which made the daily operations more expensive in terms of lives and equipment.
According to the government media office in Gaza, the Israeli aggression on the Strip has resulted in the martyrdom of more than 185,000 Palestinians between a martyr and a wounded, most of them women and children, in addition to the presence of more than 11,000 missing, in a war described as a war of genocide.
Al -Falahi believes that the occupation army is facing a double crisis; A field stumbling in the built areas, and escalating human losses within rare specialized forces, threatening Tel Aviv’s ability to continue its long battle without paying a high strategic cost in the field.