"Abusalim, who runs the Washington DC office of the Institute for Palestine Studies, is not only from Gaza, but also a Hebrew speaker who is completing a PhD in history, Hebrew and Judaic studies. Several months before the attack, he had published an essay arguing that Hamas appears to be strategically conserving its resources for a potentially larger confrontation with Israel."
"A ground invasion is unlikely to succeed, he added on 15 October. Israel is likely to kill ten times the number of Palestinians it has killed so far, he predicted on 6 November. But Israel will not achieve a military victory in Gaza."
"In July, researchers at Birzeit University, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and McMaster University estimated that the death toll in Gaza could reach 186,000 more than 18 times the figure reported by Gaza's health ministry last November."
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