Major General Fayez al-Duwairi, a military and strategic expert, said that there are difficulties hindering Israel in carrying out the ground attack on the Gaza Strip, including the lack of readiness of its forces, and its awareness of the high cost of such an attack, describing the brutal bombing taking place in the Gaza Strip as outside all military logic.
Al-Duwairi said in statements to Al Jazeera that the brutal and continuous Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip aims to eliminate the capabilities of the resistance factions, or at a minimum inflict great damage on them, so that they are unable to attack or confront any Israeli aggression, in addition to their quest to destroy the social incubator of the resistance factions in Gaza, by attacking civilians and destroying infrastructure and services in the Strip.
Israel wants to evacuate the Gaza Strip towards the Egyptian Sinai desert and later evacuate the West Bank from Palestinians, according to Duwairi.
With regard to the possibility of Israel launching a ground attack on the Gaza Strip, Al-Duwairi said that all data indicate that this incursion is coming, perhaps within hours and perhaps days, speaking about 3 scenarios indicated by Israeli research centers, the first is related to the reoccupation of Gaza, and Al-Duwairi believes that Israel can do so in theory, but it actually cannot do so due to social and geographical complications.
The second scenario concerns the division of Gaza into five cantons, which is very difficult, according to the military expert. The likely scenario, in the event of a ground offensive, is that Israel would control the agricultural areas and their depth to create a new negotiating card related to the prisoners.
From the military expert's point of view, "Lebanese Hezbollah can intervene if a ground war occurs, but only after it receives a signal from its marjaiya," referring to Tehran.
If the fighting between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation forces continues as is currently taking place, al-Duwairi ruled out the intervention of Hezbollah, and it is likely that the Palestinian factions present on Lebanese territory and near the occupied Golan will intervene.
Al-Duwairi described the war waged by Israel in the Gaza Strip as outside all military logic, pointing out that the Geneva Conventions are mainly focused on the protection of civilians and respect for human humanity, criticizing in the same context the race of Western countries to provide political, material and moral support to Israel, which gives it the green light to commit massacres against Palestinians.
The Gaza Strip has been subjected to brutal Israeli shelling since the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades launched a large-scale military operation against Israel on Saturday morning, the seventh of October, in response to the continuous attacks launched by the occupation forces on Palestinians.