Hamas still has “significant abilities in Gaza, after almost three months of Israeli operations”, this is said, Wednesday, January 3, 2024, a White House spokesperson.
The White House spokesman John Kirby stressed, in a press briefing, that “the Israeli army is capable of reducing and undoing Hamas’ capacities to carry out attacks inside Israel”, but “it will not be able to eliminate its ideology or annihilate Hamas”.
He said, in this sense, that “Hamas still has significant abilities in Gaza”, and “that it is organized as an army”.
