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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/07/02/how-hamas-is-trying-to-rebuild-after-1000-days-of-war/
Hamas Is Failing to Genuinely Rearm
(Israel Hayom) Amit Segal - After 1,000 days of war, nothing remains of the densely populated Jabalia refugee camp north of Gaza City. The area looks desolate and quiet like the surface of the moon. Engineering drills search for tunnels below ground, with D9 bulldozers operating above. In all the territory controlled by Israel, which makes up 2/3 of the territory, nothing remains. Rafah was wiped off the face of the earth, as was most of Khan Yunis. 92% of the tunnels in this part of the territory have been completely destroyed; the rest will be destroyed soon. Reports of a resurgence inside Hamas-controlled Gaza should be taken with a massive grain of salt. Hamas is failing to genuinely rearm after its smuggling routes in the air, on land, at sea, and underground were choked off. 362 smuggling tunnels from Egypt were destroyed in Rafah. Training is conducted in hiding, reconstruction materials aren't arriving, and the newly dug tunnels in the sand are barely shored up with whatever is available: sheet metal, wood scraps. "Make no mistake," says a very senior army officer, "of all the enemies we have faced, they are the most cruel, the most hateful toward us, and the most uninhibited." This is exactly the reason why it was forbidden to stop and "fight another day." Without this level of destruction and without isolating them from their patrons, Gaza would have recovered rapidly.