Does Hamas have a strategy?
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🗓️ 25 October 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
As Israel conducts 'wide-scale' retaliatory strikes against Gaza, the humanitarian crisis in the area has reached devastating proportions. Thousands are dead and food, fuel and water have almost run out. If this was part of the plan, what is the strategy and is there an end game?
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| 0:30.1 | It's 19 days since Hamas launched a horrific attack on Israel. Since then, Israel has retaliated |
| 0:45.8 | with a relentless bombardment of Gaza. Screams of fear echoed from the clouds of dust |
| 0:53.6 | cloaking the Sheikh-Hadwan neighborhood in Gaza City, as families escape another Israeli |
| 0:59.4 | asteroid. The head of the UN has called for a ceasefire, as fuel is running out in Gaza, |
| 1:08.3 | and the hospitals are unable to cope. The air strikes continue to pound the Gaza Strip all over |
| 1:17.2 | it, from north to south, where the brutality and more tragedies are unfolding, pushing hospitals |
| 1:25.9 | into the brink of collapse as this is beyond the capabilities of hospitals to accommodate and to |
| 1:33.9 | deal with. The health ministry says many of the casualties are women and children. |
| 1:39.2 | President Biden has urged Israel to delay its ground invasion of Gaza, as negotiations with Hamas |
| 1:49.7 | for the release of Israeli hostages continue. 85-year-old Yashved Lipschitz spoke out about her |
| 1:57.5 | ordeal. She was released alongside 79-year-old Nuret Cooper. They were taken by motorcycle, she said. |
| 2:03.6 | They were beaten until they reached that tunnel system. In Gaza, there they took away her watch |
| 2:09.6 | and her jewelry. We have to remember this is an 85-year-old woman. |
| 2:15.6 | At the time of recording, the estimated death toll stands at 5,800 Palestinians, |
| 2:23.6 | and 1,400 Israelis. If a ground invasion goes ahead, the numbers on both sides will only increase. |
| 2:34.6 | Is this utter devastation the reaction that Hamas was expecting? And if not, what they think would happen? |
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| 2:55.9 | Today, does Hamas have a strategy? |
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