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Hamas Are Being Smashed in Gaza City

(Telegraph-UK) Col. (ret.) Richard Kemp - The Israeli offensive engulfing Gaza City has hurled Hamas into panic mode. The IDF is conducting the most intensive operations of this two-year campaign, building intensity by the day. Military facilities including fighting positions, command centers and observation posts located in civilian buildings, including tower blocks, have been struck and destroyed. In line with their obligations under the laws of war, the IDF have repeatedly dropped leaflets warning Gazan civilians to leave the city and opened up corridors to allow them to move safely to the south. Current estimates suggest around 550,000 have departed so far and more are on the way out. Already reeling from the assault on their sponsors in Iran, Hamas had been hoping for at least a pause in hostilities with the latest stalling tactics from their negotiating team in Qatar. But that evaporated with the IDF strike on Doha which demonstrated that the Hamas leadership were safe nowhere. So, at Hamas's moment of maximum stress, British Prime Minister Starmer rides to their rescue with his formal recognition of a non-existent Palestinian state, a move that their leaders characterize as "victory." Hamas are obviously not interested in a two-state solution, any more than their fellow jihadists in the PLO and Palestinian Authority are: they want only the annihilation of the Jewish state. Israel's erstwhile allies have now shot their bolt. Recognition was their doomsday weapon. By publicly rewarding the butchers of Oct. 7, they have denied themselves even the small amount of influence they might have had over the progress of this war or the future of the Middle East. Paradoxically, the appeasement of global jihadists by opposing Jerusalem's defensive war in Gaza will make Britain even more dependent on Israel. Weakness of this type only ever provokes further violence and the threat to the UK will consequently increase. I know from my own experience how much Israel has assisted Britain and many other countries in combating terrorism and the need for that will now be even greater. The writer, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, was chairman of the UK's national crisis management committee, COBRA.
2025-09-25 00:00:00
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