Senior Israeli security officials say that US President Donald Trump's entry into the White House and the green light he gave the Netanyahu government to operate in the Gaza Strip until the "gates of hell" are opened on Hamas have greatly reduced the terrorist organization's scope for action.

Hamas is in trouble, and the outline for a hostage deal and permanent ceasefire formulated by former President Joe Biden is eroding. The same sources explain that the Israeli government has no intention of carrying it out to the end. It is determined to meet the war's goals, free all the hostages, topple the Hamas regime, and completely destroy its military force.

Israel, with Trump's full support, is negotiating under fire and gradually regaining control of the Gaza Strip. It threatens Hamas with the destruction of its military force and the elimination or expulsion of its leaders from the Strip if it does not surrender and release all the hostages.

Hamas is holding the residents of the Gaza Strip hostage. It has managed to suppress the demonstrations (so far - ED.) against it through force and terror, and in fact does not leave many choices for what is about to happen on the ground.

Now, security sources say, in the absence of the ability to rise up and overthrow the Hamas government, the residents of the Gaza Strip are faced with only two options. The first is to accept Israel's military operations in the Strip and contain them with minimal casualties.

The second is to exert public pressure on Hamas to agree to an arrangement to be built by Arab countries, in which Hamas leaders and fighters would leave the Gaza Strip, similar to the PLO's departure from Beirut in 1982, and be replaced by Palestinian security forces accompanied by Arab forces. Hamas has no influence on the first option, but it can negotiate the second option and set its terms.

Hamas is offering unrealistic alternatives to the residents of the Gaza Strip. Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri suggested this week that they oppose the Trump plan in the following way: "In the face of this diabolical plot, which combines massacre and starvation, everyone who is able to carry a weapon must act everywhere in the world. Do not spare any ammunition, bullet, knife or stone - so that everyone will wake up. We are all sinners if we continue to allow the security of the interests of the US and the Zionist occupation while slaughtering and starving Gaza."

Security sources say that this is a plan of self-destruction for the Palestinians. Today, they have no military capability to deal with the IDF's power in the Gaza Strip or Judea and Samaria. No sensible Palestinian takes this idea seriously and believes that it could succeed. On the contrary, many see it as a sign of despair over the situation and Hamas' defeat.

Residents in the Gaza Strip told me that Abu Zuhri "lives in a movie, (using an Israeli saying that means: "He is delusional") and while he enjoys status and a lot of money abroad and lives a life of luxury, "he is looking for fools whom he can send to their deaths."

According to sources in Fatah, the situation is understood on the streets of Gaza and a heated public debate is underway, the ink of which has also reached the top of Hamas.

Senior security sources in Israel estimate that the Hamas leadership has little chance of bringing about an end to the war. The only way for Israel to know which direction it intends to choose is to increase military pressure even further as soon as possible, and bring it to the point of decision.