Trumpets of victory strike false note 
Hamas's claim that it has emerged victorious from Operation Cast Lead
Hamas's claim that the movement lost only 48 of its gunmen and that the IAF had used half of its ammunition in air strikes on the Gaza Strip is not being taken seriously by many Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Various sources in the Gaza Strip, including medics, journalists and a few Hamas supporters are convinced that the movement is not telling the truth about its human losses and the damage done to its security and civilian infrastructure.
One medic said he believes at least
250 Hamas militiamen died in the fighting, while a journalist put the figure at over 400.
According to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, on the first day of the war Hamas ordered its gunmen to take off their uniforms to avoid being detected by the IDF.
Fatah representatives in the West Bank claim that the
majority of Hamas's fighters were actually hiding during the IDF operation and had not taken part in the fighting.
They pointed out that
only a few hundred gunmen belonging to Hamas and other armed factions, including Fatah's armed wing, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, and Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades, took part in the fighting after the IDF sent ground forces into the Gaza Strip.
By
ASSOCIATED PRESS
KUWAIT CITY
If you reply on this, pls post your source, para di nasad ta mag cge spread ug wrong information.. This info came from your brothers in Gaza (mga taga didto, naka kita sa gubat, not part of Hamas or Israel)..