Military expert, retired Major General Muhammad Al-Samadi, said the resistance’s bombing of settlements surrounding Gaza after 424 days carries political and military messages and confirms its possession of a strategic reserve stock missile arsenal.
Al-Sammadi explained – in his speech to Al-Jazeera – that the resistance has arc missiles, short-range “Rajum” missiles, and even mortar shells.
Al-Sammadi’s speech comes after the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced on Monday that it had bombed the Nirim and Third Eye settlements in the Gaza Strip with a number of of “Rajum” of 114 mm. rockets.
Separately, Israeli Channel 12 reported that air defenses intercepted a missile launched from the town of Khan Yunis (south of the Gaza Strip) towards the Gaza Strip.
According to the military expert, Rajum missiles carry an explosive charge estimated between 2 and 3 kilograms and their range reaches 9 kilometers.
Regarding the significance of the attack, Al-Sammadi said that Al-Qassam had sent a message saying that there was no hope of the return of residents of the settlements around the Gaza Strip “unless a ceasefire is reached and a truce concluded with the resistance.” in Gaza. »
He stressed that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is determined that Hamas will not return to power in Gaza, and that it is necessary to completely destroy its military and governmental capabilities, building on the losses suffered by the resistance and on the capacity of the occupying army to divide the Gaza Strip. and move freely.
The military expert added that the Israeli gambles proved a failure, stressing that it is impossible to achieve these objectives given the resistance’s ability to continue and inflict losses, “albeit at a pace slower, and not over a period of several weeks. and months only.
The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth cited an informed source as saying: “Israel is ready for a ceasefire in order to recover the prisoners, not to end the war, and there is a possibility of reaching an agreement regarding the hostages before the inauguration of the American president. -elect Donald Trump.
The same newspaper cites sources as saying that security chiefs and the negotiating team made it clear to Netanyahu that the time had come for a deal, noting that the negotiating team’s message was that Israel had to make painful concessions and that the time had come to make a deal. had come to turn the page on the war in Gaza.