PARIS: Israel appears likely to stage a ground assault on Gaza in response to deadly weekend attacks by Hamas, risking close-quarters fighting in densely populated areas, including in underground tunnels and around hostages.
Israel’s government yesterday said it would “immediately cut water supply to Gaza” as part of a “complete siege” on the Hamas-controlled territory.Next, “Israel will launch the largest joint operation against Gaza in history,” John Spencer, an expert at the Modern War Institute at US military academy West Point, predicted on X, formerly Twitter.
Such urban fighting will force combatants into hand-to-hand combat, reduce visibility, increase the risk of traps, blur boundaries between civilians and soldiers and render armoured vehicles next to useless.City fighting is “a 360-degree battlefield as the threats can be all around you”, said Andrew Galer, a former British army officer, now an analyst at private intelligence firm Janes.
Its overcrowded, narrow web of streets is doubled underground by a dense tunnel network known to Israeli troops as the “Gaza Metro”. Israel’s army and intelligence are certain to know about a portion of the network, and bombarded it heavily in 2021. Underground fighting would hand a major tactical advantage to the Hamas defenders and their leadership.
Citizens’ attitude would be “you have failed to ensure our security, bring us the hostages back,” she predicted — leading to “conflicts... between politicians and the military”.
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