Israel says Hamas still capable of bombing Tel Aviv, al-Quds
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas still has the capability to launch rocket attacks against targets in Tel Aviv and occupied al-Quds, despite suffering significant losses since October, the Israeli military has said.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Israeli military also claimed that it had either killed or detained some 14,000 members of the Palestinian resistance movement during the barbarous campaign in the besieged Gaza Strip ever since.
“Hamas maintains the capability to attack troops in Gaza and launch rockets on Israel, including a long-range fire on Tel Aviv or Jerusalem,” the Israeli army said on its website, claiming that it has attacked around 37,000 Hamas targets in Gaza from the air, and more than 25,000 infrastructure sites and rocket launch locations.
The regime’s army estimated that Hamas “still has long-range missiles to bomb Tel Aviv and Jerusalem [al-Quds], and more than half of its members are still alive, and the army has not yet acted against three of its brigades.”
This is while Hamas has previously strongly dismissed similar claims by the Israeli army, stressing that Tel Aviv uses such “lies” to justify the bombing of civilians in the blockaded Palestinian enclave.
According to figures provided by the Israeli army in its statement, at least 682 Israeli soldiers have been killed and approximately 9,400 others have been treated for injuries, with 36 percent of them suffering from psychological issues.
Israel has faced international criticism for continuing its brutal aggression in Gaza, despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire.
The ongoing war has devastated large areas of Gaza, exacerbated by a severe blockade affecting food, clean water, and medical supplies.
Israel faces accusations of genocide at the International Court of Justice, which recently ordered an end to military aggression in Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had sought safety before the area was invaded on May 6.
The occupying entity launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the regime in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
Since then, the United States has supplied the Tel Aviv regime with more than 10,000 tons of military equipment and used its veto power against all UN Security Council resolutions that called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
The Tel Aviv regime has so far killed about 38,800 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in Gaza.
Despite the unabated campaign of bloodletting, the regime has so far fallen short of realizing its two main “goals”, namely defeating and eliminating Hamas, and releasing Israeli captives.
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