"The military spokesperson for Hamas’ al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obeida, has affirmed that after 27 days of the war on Gaza, the Resistance fighters continue to stand their ground against the invading Israeli forces across the Strip’s frontlines.
In a speech recording, Abu Obeida revealed that, in just the past 48 hours, al-Qassam’s fighters destroyed almost an entire tank battalion and led to a substantial number of casualties among the Israeli occupation soldiers.
However, he further highlighted a more recent achievement, announcing that, in a counteroffensive in the northwestern region of Gaza City, the Resistance was able in the past few hours to destroy 6 tanks, two armored personnel carriers, and one military bulldozer.
On the Israeli losses, the spokesperson underscored that the occupation’s leadership has been misleading Israeli settlers regarding the actual casualty figures, which are considerably higher than the official announcements.
Abu Obeida asserted the Resistance’s commitment to making Gaza a perpetual curse upon the Zionist entity, warning that invading forces would not make it out alive.
Moreover, he emphasized that the occupation’s brutal massacres will not weaken the Resistance or its morale and will rather only fortify the resolve and strength of the Palestinian Resistance to exact a heavy price from the entity and its invading forces. Abu Obeida also praised the unwavering spirit of the people of Gaza and their resolute defense of their homeland."
Christ, I just checked and Israel has 2,200 tanks by conservative estimates… This is going to take a while. At this rate, Gaza will be gone before they’ve used up all their tanks.
I think even that can turn to the resistance’s advantage: Gaza is tiny, the more wrecked tanks block the streets the harder it will be for the occupiers to send in new ones.
Not to mention all those tank parts, all that armor, weaponry and ammo sitting there for the taking…
How many idf soldiers have been killed? I guess way fewer than the >8000 death Palestinians.
Gazans have nowhere else to go; their fight is a fight for their very existence. How many Israeli conscripts are willing to die in the hell of intense urban warfare before they start refusing to fight or mutinying?
In a morbid way every IDF death costs Isreal much more than a hamas fighter; not to get reductive over this conflict, because I personally value all human life equally but in terms of war planning this is very much the case.
If you imagine the newest gen of tank (Merkerva) they have for example; it has a trophy system, requires you to be backed up by infantry willing to both provide recon, forward observing and covering fire incase (like we’ve already seen hamas do) of someone just running up to it with a nade; nevermind just dropping a nade on it with a drone (which we’ve seen hamas also do)
The cost for hamas to do this is;
1 nade
or
1 nade and a drone;
which is about 2k usd in real terms; if they manage to blow up a modern tank and crew within; thats at least 6 million dollars on just the tank alone; add ammo and crew training and it is just pissed down the drain; they need to go train the specialized crew for that tank for 6 months to a year, replace all that expensive smart ammo and convince those highly educated tank crewmen that this time will be different.
Same applies with any specialized gear; they know that all they are actually good for is reducing gaza to dust; if they want to actually go in (which they will need too) the tech advantage begins to mean less, its how the viet cong won despite using 1950 soviet weapons against a force with fighter jets, tanks and modern military equipment; morale starts factoring in, and with gazans they have put the fear into the rank and file IDF fighter already.
