Hamas is only battered, says Israeli journalist, pointing out positives and shortcomings of the agreement

Hamas is only battered, – a journalist from Israel pointed out the positive and shortcomings of the concluded agreement Alexander Sadovaya

On January 16, Israel and Hamas officially signed an agreement that provides for the release of hostages and a ceasefire. However, there are many negative aspects for Israel. Many goals were not achieved, so it cannot be called a victory.

At the same time, the Palestinian militants stuck to their demands, they could not be broken. Israeli journalist Emil Shleimovich explained this to Channel 24.

Israel did not achieve all its goals

Emil Shleimovich noted that it is good that there is at least such an agreement, but it is bad. After all, only 33 people are being released so far. These are both bodies and living hostages. Also, the entire release process is not described. Now they will release women who did not serve in the army, then women who were captured on October 7, children, elderly people, and so on. But young soldiers will remain there. In particular, about 20 alive. It is known that from May to August, Israel was unable to push through Hamas anywhere.

It is bad that they dragged it out for so long. During this time, our soldiers died. 6 hostages were shot by bandits when some kind of military operation began in their area, while they were hiding them. Another two died as a result of Israeli strikes. Because intelligence could not always know where they were. Although every effort was made to find out, he said.

People died while the government tried to achieve something more beneficial for Israel. They managed to achieve something. There will be a return of refugees from the south of the Gaza Strip to the north. In the list of 33 names, the living will be returned first, and only at the end – the bodies.

Israel had certain goals in this war. In particular, to destroy Hamas as a military-political force, to deprive it of power in Gaza and its military capabilities. This was not achieved.

“Israel declared the goal of freeing the hostages with the help of strong military pressure. The hostages were not freed in this way. There were some operations where one, two, three were pulled out. There were also cases when people died. This was also not realized. What will happen to the 65 names that were left for the second stage – no one knows. In general, it cannot be called a victory in a war when the goals were not achieved,” the journalist emphasized.

According to Israel's estimates, 17,000 terrorists were liquidated. If we are talking only about Hamas, then this is approximately 60% of the Palestinian militants' personnel. However, they are constantly recruiting and have recruited people in numbers that are comparable to the losses.

That is, there are no achieved goals of the war. Hamas stood its ground, and as a result of this agreement, it demands this. It demanded the release of terrorists. In conclusion, Israel releases terrorists with blood on their hands. About 200 people will be released in the first stage, those who actually killed, blew up, planned, who were sentenced to life imprisonment, – noted Emil Shleimovich.

In addition, Israel is releasing someone else. Although at first they talked about releasing up to 3 thousand people in the first stage. So far, they have not released the Nuhba terrorists. This is the special forces that invaded Israel on October 7.

Hamas insisted and was not prepared to back down from demands to return refugees to the north. Although in many cases there is almost nowhere to return to. In the Gaza Strip, houses, infrastructure, roads have been destroyed, the territory is absolutely unsuitable for life.

However, it was very important for the terrorists to achieve the return of people there. Because this is supposedly countering the plans to annex northern Gaza, which representatives of the most right-wing nationalist wing in the current coalition of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are openly talking about.

“That is, this is the second line that Hamas defended and defended. They did not retreat from anything in their demands. Therefore, it is definitely impossible to talk about Israel's victory here. Hamas is battered, but they were not able to break it,” the Israeli journalist added.