(Telegraph-UK) Melanie Swan - Israel believes it has dismantled Hamas' main command and control structure in central and northern Gaza but pockets of "guerrilla" resistance remain. Months of urban warfare has pushed Hamas out of major strongholds and its forces are now scattered. "Hamas no longer operates as an army. Its units have been eradicated and they don't have a central command and control," an IDF source said. "Each unit is acting independently, doing what they think they should do, but there is no control center that can move units around." "They turned into the old style of guerrilla warfare....A lot of them are surrendering. A lot have lost the motivation and the urge to fight and you can see this as the numbers of Israeli casualties have reduced significantly. Hamas are not fighting." What remains of the senior leadership team is now in Rafah, the only remaining urban center that the IDF's ground teams have not reached. One Hamas commander told the Telegraph that in spite of the suffering, the Oct. 7 operation has become "a thing of pride" to Palestinians and the Arab world. He suggested the operation did not go as planned. "We lost thousands of soldiers and by the borders there are thousands of corpses and nobody can go and take them."
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