Fierce night attacks of Hamas fighters:
On December 12 night, Hamas militants attacked the occupying forces in the town of al-Shaja’iya, east of Gaza City, killing seven soldiers, including two top officers of the Golani Brigade. Seven is the number according to the Israeli confession, while the actual number is higher.
Among the top officers killed were Colonel Tomer Grunberg, commander of the 13th Battalion, and Colonel Ishaq Bin Basit, head of the Golani Brigade’s forward command team.
According to al-Arabiya, two officers and soldiers of the Golani Brigade were caught in a trap set by Palestinian veterans (Qassam Brigade) while entering a building, and in this incident, several soldiers detonated an improvised explosive device. Explosive Material (IED), while another Israeli team that came to their aid was also hit by improvised explosive devices. Apart from this, they were also fired upon from nearby tall buildings due to which many soldiers were killed.
Last week, the Israeli army acknowledged that the commander and soldiers of the Golani Brigade had been killed in clashes with Palestinian militants in Shujaya.
The Israeli army said in a statement that the Golani Brigade has fought a fierce battle in Shujaya, targeting the fighters and their members’ infrastructure in the area.
The statement also said Palestinian fighters were fighting inside civilian buildings and a network of underground tunnels. They targeted the invading Israeli forces with explosives and bullets from inside a residential building.
The failure of the Israeli army:
The Israeli army is unable to achieve its main objectives in Gaza, despite its overwhelming manpower, technological, military, and financial superiority.
So far, those who were captured by Hamas on October 7 have not been traced, nor has Hamas been defeated.
Fear engulfs the Israeli army:
Failure to achieve goals, beatings by Palestinian fighters and the length of the war have also significantly reduced the morale of the Israeli army. This is the reason why an Israeli soldier, who returned from Gaza, Afikhai Lafi, while talking to the media yesterday, said that if I don’t drink alcohol during the day, I can’t sleep at night.
“I’m still imagining RPG shells going over my head,” he screamed. I’m imagining that I’m fighting inside a bulldozer, the smell of dead bodies wafting into my nose and I’m picking up the pieces of bodies from the dead soldiers.
What is the importance of the Golani Brigade?
The Golani Brigade of the Israeli Army was established in 1948 as an elite unit. Soldiers of this brigade are distinguished by brown caps and square unit tags.
The Golani Brigade has participated in the War of Israel’s establishment, the Yom Kippur War, the wars with Lebanon, and many other such battles, and is considered the most powerful and distinguished part of the Israeli army.
According to the Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post, when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, Golani Brigade battalions 51 and 13 were also hit, and among the more than 300 soldiers killed on the first day of the battle, a large number of Golani Brigade soldiers were killed. was
The Israeli army is facing difficulties in Gaza:
According to the Turkish news agency Anatolia, since October 7, 469 Israeli soldiers have been killed, while the number of wounded has increased, but according to other sources, the actual number of dead and wounded is much higher. Hamas has so far posted videos of the destruction of hundreds of Israeli tanks and countless armored vehicles, putting the Israeli military’s casualties in the thousands and making it the largest and most devastating attack on the Israeli military in history.
It appears that the Israeli army is facing severe difficulties in the urban areas of Gaza. On the other hand, international support for Israel is rapidly decreasing due to indiscriminate bombing, and in recent days, many world leaders from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom have expressed concern over the deaths of civilians in Gaza.
In this situation, the withdrawal of the Golani Brigade from Gaza is of great importance and it shows the difficulties of the Israeli army in Gaza. This retreat is a humiliating retreat for the Israeli army.
