Experts and former Israeli security officials confirmed the impossibility of Tel Aviv combining its declared goal of destroying the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas and liberating its prisoners, while the families of the prisoners detained in Gaza renewed their demand for a ceasefire in order to release their relatives.

According to Razi Barkai, from the Israeli army's Gali Tsahal Radio, implementing the missions of "destroying Hamas" and "liberating prisoners" simultaneously and in parallel is "not possible."

As for the editor of Arab affairs on the Israeli Channel 13, Zvi Yehezqili, he said that Hamas is not in distress, “and even under Al-Shifa Medical Hospital, you will not find senior leaders there.”

In turn, General in the Reserve Army Giora Eiland - former head of the Operations Department - believes that Hamas as an organization has not collapsed, "not only because its leadership exists, but also because the goal on its part is very simple: to hold on and be steadfast."

He added, "Whenever it continues to cling to the steadfastness of a portion of the kidnapped (captives), it assumes that Israel at a certain stage will be forced to stop due to international pressure or other reasons; therefore, this battle is still at its peak."

For his part, Reserve Army General Gadi Shamni - former head of the operations room in the General Staff - said that those who know Gaza and know the meaning of fighting there “know that we are very far from the day when we will impose a siege on Al-Shifa and the fortified rooms below.”

He pointed out that Tel Aviv has all the time to do this, noting American and British support, "and we saw that in the Security Council."

In the opinion of General Edo Mizrahi, the main engineering officer, Hamas realizes that it must preserve its necessary property, noting that it has resorted to "bugging the tunnel mouths with explosives and closing our access to the interior."

He added, "In recent days, we have been treating dozens of cases like this, where our men were injured."

The report presented several interventions by the families of the Israeli prisoners detained in Gaza, and they agreed on the necessity of the Israeli government accepting a ceasefire with Hamas in order to initiate an exchange deal that would lead to the release of their relatives who were captured in the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation carried out by the Al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of the Hamas movement - in The seventh of last October.

Source: Al Jazeera