The deputy director of the Diário de Notícias, Leonídio Paulo Ferreira, explained in the TSF which led Palestinian forces to launch this operation.
“Hamas wanted to demonstrate its life on a large scale. There is a struggle for Palestinian leadership, a struggle for leadership of the Palestinian national cause and clearly Hamas wants to be the element that wins this struggle. And this operation, which includes something unprecedented so far, on a scale of organization and tremendous sophistication, that you can place armed men in Israel to fight Israeli soldiers, enter Israeli cities attacking civilians, take hostages, both civilian and military, it is truly something of enormous scale. “Obviously He has no illusions that he can win a conventional war against Israel. Today’s operations will surely end with the annihilation of these forces that entered Israel. The point is that Hamas has shown that it can shake Israeli confidence that it is capable of protecting its population. even in the areas around Gaza,” he explained to TSF Leonidio Paulo Ferreira.
Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world in terms of armed forces and security services, but Leonídio Paulo Ferreira explains what could have gone wrong so that this operation was not detected in time by the Israeli authorities.
“Why were there no information leaks to Israel? Israel obviously has informants in Gaza and has an electronic way of searching for information, but apparently, this time, that was not enough to detect this operation, which is surprising considering the size of There is another element here that is also secondary, but which may have some relevance: the problems since the beginning of the year in the West Bank, where clashes have also occurred between Palestinian groups and Israel, will have caused a kind of change in the attention of military personnel towards the West Bank in relation to the Gaza Strip and, therefore, Israel may have seemed trapped here a little less prepared than usual,” explained the deputy director of Diário de Notícias.
The deputy director of Diário de Notícias has no doubt that Israel will win this war. However, he believes that Israeli authorities will have to exercise some restraint in responding to this offensive.
“Israel is negotiating normalization with several Arab countries and even has ambitions for some more, such as Saudi Arabia. Therefore, its way of reacting is also under surveillance, because the leaders of Arab countries also have public opinion that pressures them. and this public opinion is pro-Palestinian but, even more complicated from my point of view, does Israel have to show Hamas that it has strength and that it can do very serious damage to Hamas and punish it for what it did, but not It cannot just kill the civilian population in Gaza – and we are talking about one of the most densely populated areas in the world – since Israel will at some point have to negotiate with someone and it will probably be Hamas. For what? If the reports “There are kidnapped Israelis, Israelis who may have already been taken to the Gaza Strip, there is a time here when negotiations will probably have to take place,” he added.
The surprise attack launched this Saturday by Hamas against Israeli territory, in an operation called “Al-Aqsa Storm”, involved the launching of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed militiamen by land, sea and air.
In response, Israel bombed several Hamas facilities in the Gaza Strip from the air, in an operation it called “Iron Swords.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel is “at war” with Hamas, which has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007.
Source: TSF
