5/7/2025–|Last update: 17:52 (Mecca time)
The military and strategic expert, Colonel Hatem Karim Al -Falahi, said that the term “raid” that I used Al -Qassam Brigades The military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) In describing its last operation, the middle Khan Yunis South Gaza Strip It refers to an accurate combat style based on the foundations of private fighting.
Al -Falahi said in an analysis of the military scene in the Gaza Strip that this method is carried out through a moving force that surprised a fixed and specific goal, then followed by an immediate and rapid withdrawal towards a safe point, and these operations are supported by supportive teams costing protection and concealment, along with a base from which the attacking force goes back and returns after implementation.
He pointed out that what happened in Khan Yunis – according to Al -Qassam’s narration – carries clear indications that the operation was complex and successful, especially since the clashes that followed lasted 5 continuous hours, and prevented the occupation forces from carrying out a quick evacuation of the dead and wounded, in light of the intensity of fire and the difficulty of air control.
The Al -Qassam Brigades announced that its fighters carried out a qualitative operation on Friday morning in the middle of Khan Yunis, targeting a gathering of the occupation soldiers near the Education Directorate, where a tanker destroyed the “Yassin 105” shell, then surprised an Israeli rescue force and caused direct injuries in its ranks.
Al -Qassam added that it had detonated two “shores” packages in two Merkava tanks, confirming that their two teams were killed and wounded.
According to its statement, the battalions monitored the decline in Israeli helicopters, which carried out evacuations for hours, without an official Israeli comment.
Regarding the escalation of operations in Khan Yunis in particular, Al -Falahi saw that the geographical location of the city, its area and overlapping its infrastructure are factors that make it an appropriate theater for private fighting, indicating that the nature of the land there is imposed on the Israeli army to fight double battles above the ground and under it at the same time.
Surprising operations
Al -Falahi pointed out that the terrain of the region and the accumulation of rubble allow the resistance to implement sudden operations, benefiting from the capabilities of covering up and hiding, and that the tunnels are a detailed element in this equation, as the fighters were able to reach the areas of contact without prior monitoring.
The last Khan Yunis operation coincided with the Israeli army’s announcement of the killing of two soldiers in separate operations in Khan Yunis and Beit Hanoun, while the resistance factions continued to carry out a series of attacks against the occupation forces, confirming the fulfillment of direct injuries among the soldiers and vehicles.
Colonel Al -Falahi indicated that the Israeli insistence on remaining in Khan Yunis despite the losses reflects a desire to penetrate to the city, based on the control it claims on large areas there, but the high cost of this may hinder this trend.
He added that if the Israeli army decides to expand its operations, it will collide with a number of complications, most notably the population density, the dangers of prejudice to the prisoners and the difficulty of fighting in narrow urban neighborhoods that were not fully penetrated in the past, as well as the narrow time of the political process of field operations.
Al -Falahi pointed out that the resistance has proven during the past months a growing combat efficiency in the City War, and that it was able to convert the Israeli incursion into an exhausted military burden through continuous qualitative operations since mid -May last the occupation units on a daily basis.
The statements of the Israeli army show that 883 soldiers have been killed since October 7, 2023, of whom 439 are in the land battles inside the Strip, while the number of wounded exceeded 6 thousand, indicating the depth of the attrition facing the army despite the continuous official blackout.