The War in Gaza is Over - NO IT'S NOT

The Gaza war is practically over and all that's left are a few hostage - prisoner ransom swaps and, hoopa, it's all over "'cept the cryin'" – NO IT’S NOT

Reporter Yoav Zeiton in this morning's Ynet daily: "This morning in Yedioth Ahronoth and Ynet we are revealing what can be published about the IDF's extraordinary preparations in the south, and it is worth putting on the table:

1. Hamas was not defeated in the war - far from it; the month-long ceasefire caused it to reorganize and not abandon the idea of ​​attacking Israel

2. Many thousands of its operatives returned from the south of the Gaza Strip to the north with the withdrawal from the Netzarim axis and were among the half million Gazans who did so

3. Those thousands of terrorists found many hundreds of terrorists there in Gaza City and its suburbs, and they rebuilt company and battalion structures

4. Hamas collected a large amount of explosives from the remnants of the retreating IDF in the past month, thus trapping explosive sites and creating new weapons for its forces

5. In addition, Hamas has networked surveillance cameras at key points in the Gaza Strip, raised drones for collection and scanning, and re-manned Its units with new commanders

‏6. Hamas also located and targeted quite a few rocket launchers that remained in the Gaza Strip, in the background of the 4 launches in the past week in Buraij and Rafah

‏7. The military wing's operatives are preparing tunnels that the IDF did not locate, also for possible targets for attack, and are renovating damaged tunnels

‏8. Let us recall:

‏a. There are commanders in Hamas that the IDF and Shin Bet were sure had been eliminated, and who have come back to life

‏b. The strategic decision made by Hamas in the first month of the war when it realized that Hezbollah had abandoned it: to withdraw most of its terrorists to the cities of the displaced and to preserve as much weaponry as possible

9. In addition, Hamas is also strengthening its control through the municipalities in the Gaza Strip, providing municipal services to the Gazans and collecting taxes from the distribution of food and fuel aid that Israel brings in, in order to pay its operatives

10. The IDF, on the other hand, is completing preparations for a broad ground and air operation, including with reserve brigades: "Hamas is very damaged with gaps in manpower and weapons, but there is still a lot of work to overcome it militarily”