About a month after the start of the Israeli war against Gaza, and days after the start of the ground attack on the Gaza Strip, Israel speaks of successes but points to painful losses, and confirms that it has dealt painful blows to the Hamas movement, but the missile strikes are still targeting major Israeli cities.

This situation raises the question of what Israel has achieved a month after it declared war on Gaza. Military and strategic expert, retired Major General Samir Faraj, in an interview with Monte Carlo International, considered that it is not possible to talk about the success of the Israeli military operation and that the situation on the ground is equal between Hamas and the Israeli army, and he said.

We measure the success of any military operation by two things: the extent of the enemy's destruction, and the capture of hostile territory.

Has Israel seized and occupies parts of it today, and is it under its control? The result is no.

If it had captured Gaza City and Lahia, achieved all of that, and established its forces on the ground, it would have been victorious.

But all that is happening is the continuation of hostilities between the two sides, each of them trying to control and inflict the greatest losses on the enemy.

But we cannot say that Israel achieved success before it seized land, and what it is currently doing is incursions in the morning and withdrawal at night for fear of counterattacks.

As for the Palestinian side, it says that it definitely destroyed enemy equipment and weapons and caused them losses. Therefore, we cannot say that either of them achieved its mission, and therefore the mission or the military situation is still equal between the two parties.