On Saturday, Israeli tanks and troops started maneuvering closer to the outskirts of Gaza City in preparation for one Full-scale offensive. Eyewitness accounts reported intensified shelling while Israel is on his way to what the determining fight against his war against Hamas terrorists could be: the conquest of Gaza City.
The security cabinet of Israel approved the operation, known as Gideon’s Chariots B, and has used a maximum of five IDF divisions in the direction of the edge of the city – a very important mobilization. Thousands of reservists – some 60,000 – have been called.
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A view of Gaza City, the closest location in the strip, seen before the current war with Israel. (Mohammed Salem/File Photo/Reuters.)
Spencer said that “Hamas semi-circles of defenses on Israel has built up. But the IDF has shown creativity in maneuvering around obstacles.” Israel is planning to send more fighting forces to Gaza City than has been used in the entire strip so far. “If your goal is to erase the military capacities of Gaza van Hamas and to look for hostages, you need that scale,” he said.
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Lt. Gene. Eyal Zamir, the chief of the General Staff, runs a field tour in the Gaza Strip. (IDF spokesperson)
“The IDF has gained enormous experience in the last two years and will use those tactics in this battle. … You are strong, the enemy is weak and you are patient. Even the weather is on the side of Israel, with the winter that only arrives in January.”
The tunnels remain the most formidable element of Hamas’s defense. In contrast to ISIS terrorists in Mosul, Spencer said, Hamas has built an underground tunnel network with which commanders and hunters can move between positions, avoid strikes and Hidden hostages. “The IDF that goes to Gaza City is not the IDF of 2023,” said Spencer, pointing to fast adjustments to the use of drones, robots and specialized units for tunnel warfare. “They have learned so much. But this will still be slow, very careful and expensive.”
To illustrate the scale, Spencer pointed out the fight of 2004 for Fallujah in Iraq. “It took the Marine Corps for about two weeks to free up Fallujah – every single house, building, shop. About 68,000 structures were cleaned up, as if someone looked physically,” he said. “If all five this [IDF] Divisions did that, absolutely, you could get it in a few months. But the enemy always gets a voice. You can’t hurry to fail. “
The former Israeli high safety officer described the operation as “telescopic – very slow, with pistons who work one by one. This pace also gives Hamas the chance at every phase to try to close a deal.”
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Troops of the Givati ​​Brigade, under the order of the 162nd division, operate in the area of ​​Jabaliya in the Northern Gaza Strip as part of operation “Gideon’s Charmots”. (IDF spokesperson)
About the fate of hostages who may be held in Gaza City, the civil servant was Bot: “Some hostages would die. It would not surprise me if more brigades were brought in – the IDF uses a huge ground power to grab urban terrain.”
Shamni also warned that Hamas can move hostages, 50 hostages, of whom are still supposed to live, in combat zones to scare strikes – a tactic that he said would be reluctant to be concerned with fear of harming prisoners, a conflict between military necessity and core values.
Shamni emphasized a particularly loaded dilemma: Evacuating citizens. “You don’t know who will leave, how much will leave, how they will respond – or whether Hamas will even allow them to leave,” he said. “I assume that many will not evacuate, and then you are confronted with the hard dilemma of fighting in a place full of no -fighters.”
Spencer added that history shows that about 10% of citizens are left behind. “Even 10% of a million is 100,000 people,” he said.
A terrorist from Hamas participates in a military parade. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/File Photo/Reuters.)
Shamni predicts a long-term operation: “It can take months. Two months can grab the surface, but then you still have to erase tunnels. It will be many lives cost-including citizens. The worst scenario is that no hostages are found alive or death because of the destruction.”
Shamni, who also served as Israel’s military attaché in Washington, warned that the double goals of beating Hamas and the return of hostages are contradictory and risking for years of fighting.
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Spencer, however, called the decision to continue a “calculated risk” in which it is explained that although military action is in danger, “you weigh that Hamas will kill the hostages against the certainty that they will be starved and tortured. Military pressure is the last resort. Without Gaza, Hamas will keep a sanctuary.”
