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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Mat Nashed

Has Israel realised that it can’t ‘eradicate’ Hamas?

Israeli soldiers exit a tunnel that they claim Hamas militants used to attack the Beit Hanoon (Erez) crossing in the northern Gaza Strip, December 15, 2023. More than 100 days after launching its war on Gaza, Israel has been unable to dismantle the Hamas tunnels, and the armed group is regaining its hold in the north of the strip, say analysts [Ariel Schalit/AP Photo]

In early January, Israel announced that it was withdrawing some of its forces from northern Gaza after “dismantling” Hamas’s military activities in the region.

Three months had passed since the start of its war on Gaza, more than 20,000 Palestinians had been killed and Israel had increasingly turned its attention to central and southern Gaza, here it has surrounded and targeted the city of Khan Younis in particular.

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