On the run in Gaza, Israhell kills Hamas leader to try to cover up defeat

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The first article is from Information Liberation, and it is followed by a report from PressTV.

NBC News: Israel Withdrawing 'Thousands' of Troops From Gaza
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64211

Israel is pulling multiple units out of Gaza likely amounting to "thousands of troops" as Palestinian fighters are reporting huge victories on the battlefield.

From NBC News, "Israel withdrawing some units from Gaza":  https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-withdrawing-units-gaza-rcna131800

TEL AVIV — Israel says five of its military brigades, including many reservists, will be withdrawing from the Gaza Strip this week in an effort to pace itself for an expected long-term conflict and to mitigate damage to Israel's economy.

The Israel Defense Forces said the 828th Brigade, 261st Brigade and 460th Brigade, composed of active duty troops, will all return to their normal training missions. The 551st Brigade and 14th Brigade, comprising reservists, will be allowed to go home and resume their normal jobs, the IDF said.

Yet the military took pains to signal that the withdrawal of those brigades did not mean an end to active, intensive combat in Gaza or any reduction in Israel's mission there. Israel has been under intense global pressure to scale back the war but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a national address over the weekend that the war would continue for "many more months."

"The goals of the war require prolonged fighting and we are preparing accordingly," IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari told reporters.

Hagari said allowing reservists to come home would "allow considerable relief for the economy and allow them to gather strength for the next activities in the coming year, and the fighting will continue and we will still need them."

All told, the number likely amounts to thousands of troops leaving Gaza at least temporarily. Israel hasn't disclosed how many troops are fighting in the Gaza Strip.

I wonder if this has anything to do with it?

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Fighting with trained soldiers willing to die isn't as easy as bombing children from the sky.  https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64194

Is Israel going to be humiliated on the battlefield in a repeat of the 2006 Lebanon War?




Deputy head of Hamas politburo assassinated in Israeli strike
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/01/02/717480/Palestinian-resistance-movement-Hamas-assassinated-Beirut-

The deputy head of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has been assassinated in an Israeli drone attack in the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital of Beirut.

Lebanon's al-Mayadeen television network reported on Tuesday that Saleh al-Arouri was killed as a result of an explosion in a building in al-Musharrafieh district in southern Beirut.

Arouri was killed in a "treacherous Zionist strike," the television network said, adding that the blast took place after an Israeli drone bombed the building with three missiles, killing six people and wounding several others.

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Hamas confirmed the martyrdom of Arouri as the chief of staff of the resistance movement in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip, praising him as the "architect" of Operation al-Aqsa Storm.

Hamas vowed in a statement that the killing of the resistance movement's deputy will not "undermine the continued brave resistance" in Gaza.

"It proves once more the utter failure of the enemy to achieve any of its aggressive goals in the Gaza Strip," Izzat al-Rishq, a member of the political bureau of Hamas, said in the statement.

The Israeli regime launched its devastating war on the Gaza Strip on October 7 after the territory's Hamas-led Palestinian resistance groups carried out a surprise retaliatory attack, dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, against the occupying entity.

The Israeli military has also been carrying out attacks against the Lebanese territory since then, prompting retaliatory strikes from Lebanon's resistance movement Hezbollah in support of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

The movement has vowed to keep up its retaliatory operations as long as the regime continues its onslaught on Gaza.

The relentless Israeli military campaign against Gaza has killed more than 22,000 people, most of them women and children. At least 57,000 individuals have also been wounded.

The regime has largely cut off access to water, food and power supplies to Gaza.