Former Israeli official: Hamas severely weakened

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00:00So, I mean, typically in the past, when these sorts of operations have been carried out,

00:05there's been some form of retaliation. I mean, do you think Israel is expecting retaliation?

00:11And what form might it take? I mean, could it come from someone apart from Hamas? Could

00:16it come from, for example, the Houthis in Yemen? What sort of scenarios do you envisage?

00:21I think that the situation is totally different. In the past, we asked ourselves what would

00:27be the retaliation from Gaza. But the capabilities of Hamas today in Gaza are such that they

00:34are not relevant as a threat to Israel inside Israel. They are very relevant to anyone who

00:40want to come into the and to live in the Gaza Strip and to walk in the Gaza Strip and to

00:47act in the Gaza Strip. But they are not relevant as a threat to Israel. They lost their ability

00:51to launch missiles and many, a big number of missiles to Israel or to make a ground

00:59raid like they did in the 7th of October that they don't have in their capacity after the

01:05long war that we did in Gaza.