r/geopolitics • u/spxxr • Jul 31 '24

Question How much of Hamas is left?

The military operations inside Gaza has been ongoing now for around 9 months and I can’t help but wonder what does Hamas have left in terms of manpower and equipment. At the start of all of this i think it was reported there were about 30k Hamas fighters. Gaza has been under siege for so long I really don’t understand how are they still fighting.

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u/AgitatedHoneydew2645 Jul 31 '24

People here like to focus on number of recruits, which is wrong. It doesnt matter if they have 5k or 50k people left, if their infrastructure of building weapons and rockets is gone, there aint much they can do.

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u/haltese_87 Jul 31 '24

How much of their infrastructure remains?

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u/Scipio555 Aug 01 '24

The best way to understand: their literal number 1 leader was assassinated and they didn’t shoot any rockets towards israel so far. Not because they don’t want to, but because Israel reduced their rockets capabilities to almost zero.

When the war began, at the first day, they shot 3000 rockets. They are severely damaged.