An Israeli media report indicates that the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has reorganized its command structure and is executing deadly attacks based on new intelligence, despite ongoing Israeli pressure and a relentless, months-long military campaign in the besieged region.
Israeli Walla News, citing sources, reported that Izz al-Din al-Haddad, a commander of Hamas's military wing, the Qassam Brigades, is actively gathering precise intelligence on Israeli troop movements across multiple fronts in Gaza.
"This intelligence has enabled the Palestinian group to conduct coordinated attacks, including sniper fire, anti-tank missile strikes, and the deployment of explosives in various forms — from light arms fire to mortar shelling."
The report further pointed out that Hamas had successfully appointed new field commanders and is maintaining a functional chain of command directing guerrilla operations from Gaza City and central camps to key battle zones.
This comes as unprecedented criticism has surfaced against prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war-mongering polices.
Israeli columnist Nadav Eyal, in a strongly worded opinion published in Yedioth Ahronoth, described the war in Gaza as a deadly trap marked by heavy losses and an unending drain on resources
Despite repeated assurances from Washington of its “sincere support”, Eyal hinted that serious doubts remain about Israel’s overall strategy in Gaza.
The analyst also questioned the benefit of Netanyahu’s most recent meeting with US President Donald Trump, while five more Israeli families were mourning their sons killed in Gaza.
Slogans such as “disarming Hamas” or “preventing it from ruling” lack real substance, he argued, and pursuing them would require “full military occupation” of the besieged territory — a move he described as pushing Israel into a “Vietnamese quagmire” with no way out.
Eyal bluntly described such a scenario -full military occupation- would lead to endless exhaustion and continued bloodshed.
He also challenged the government’s narrative, stating plainly: “Hamas has not been defeated.”
Citing military data, Eyal revealed that 38 Israeli soldiers have been killed since March, suggesting that Hamas’s fighting capabilities remain largely intact.
He further pointed to recent deadly ambushes — including the Beit Hanoun attack — which took place in areas previously declared “secure”.
Israeli reserve major-general Yitzhak Brik earlier told the Hebrew-language Maariv daily that Hamas had regained its pre-war strength, contradicting the Israeli military’s accounts of progress in the besieged Palestinian territory.
Brik called the reality on the ground for Israeli soldiers “grim”. He further pointed out that Hamas now numbers about 40,000 resistance fighters, similar to its strength before the Israeli aggression began in Gaza.
Hamas recently declared that "the resistance was waging a war of attrition in response to the relentless Israeli genocide against civilians, surprising the enemy daily with renewed field tactics."
Palestinian resistance fighters in recent days have killed and injured dozens of Israeli occupation forces in a series of ambushes, amid the regime’s escalated aggression on the besieged territory.
Observers say operations show the resistance group remains strong and steadfast, more than 20 months after the start of Israel's air and ground offensive in Gaza.
Rami Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian military analyst, has said the latest resistance operations against invading Israeli forces in Gaza show Hamas is "switching from a defensive phase to tactical attack mode."
Hamas has further stressed that the "absolute victory" that Netanyahu speaks of is nothing but an illusion to mislead his public.
Observers maintain Israel has failed to achieve its objectives in its brutal war on the Gaza Strip.
According to the Gaza health ministry, more than 57,700 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed since the US-Israeli military campaign began in October 2023. Over 137,600 others have also been injured.
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