Senior Military Official: "In Recent Days Signs of a Break in Hamas have been Detected"

Israel at war the 64th day. The surrender of the Hamas terrorists in Jabaliya and Shejaiya teaches the IDF that Hamas is beginning to disintegrate, at least in the north of the Gaza Strip.

A senior military official says today: "We have seen signs of a break in Hamas in recent days. The extent of the destruction and damage creates command and control problems. There are areas in the Strip that Hamas no longer controls militarily." However, "despite the achievements, we are not close to the end of the fighting. We continue to operate with great intensity and dismantle entire battalions of Hamas. About half of the battalion commanders of Hamas have been eliminated."

The IDF summarizes two weeks from the start of the continuation of the attack. Since the resumption of hostilities, the Air Force has attacked over 3,500 targets in the Gaza Strip, including immediate targets identified by the fighters in the area. Since the beginning of the hostilities, over 22,000 targets have been attacked in the Gaza Strip.

At this stage, the IDF fighters are operating in the Gaza Strip against a number of terrorist strongholds - in Jabaliya, Shejaiya, Beit Hanoun and Khan Yunis. The forces are raiding terrorist targets, eliminating terrorists, locating and destroying weapons and terrorist infrastructure. The naval forces operate in the maritime space in the Gaza Strip, assisting the ground forces and attacking terrorist targets from the sea.