Military expert, Colonel Hatem Karim Al -Falahi, said that the Palestinian resistance factions continue to implement qualitative ambushes against Israeli forces and mechanisms, stressing that they depend on the element of surprise and surprise, so he fails occupation army Always avoid it.
Al -Falahi explained – in his analysis of the military scene in Gaza – that the qualitative ambushes are carried out in a complex urban fighting area with narrow streets and high buildings, and there is a network of tunnels in multiple areas in it.
He stressed that the Palestinian fighters are proficient in fighting in the built areas, in light of an unconventional war between a systemic army and another that adopts guerrilla warfare.
Al -Falahi’s speech came after the announcement of Israeli media – Friday – 5 soldiers were killed and two were wounded in a very critical condition in Khan Yunis South Gaza Strip.
The same media explained that an Israeli force consisting of 12 soldiers from the elite unit exposed to an ambush and collapse of a booby -trapped building in Khan Yunis.
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The military expert described this ambush as “Al -Natqawi”, as the Palestinian resistance chose a house, which suggests that it has a high accuracy in reading the ideas of advanced power in this region and the methods of fighting the occupation army.
It was likely that there would be an Israeli media blackout regarding the number of injuries in this ambush, fearing the anger of the Israeli street, indicating the resistance of a large amount of explosives in the ambush area.
He stressed that the implementation of such ambushes “constitutes a major obstacle to the occupation army in achieving field progress during this period,” especially since the incursion into urban areas is still in its infancy.
In turn, the official Israeli Broadcasting Corporation quoted the commander of the 77th Battalion in Khan Yunis as saying that the fighters of the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitationThey booby -trapped roads and depend on “almost every building booby -trapped.”
Maariv newspaper also quoted a senior leader in the seventh Israeli brigade as saying that “the army has been in a war of two years ago, and this leads to tremendous consumption of equipment,” stressing that “no one has prepared for the possibility of a long war like this, and that every mechanism has a default life.”
“We have sinned in the way we built our forces, and at an estimate that we will fight a short campaign,” the leader added.
For his part, Al -Falahi stressed that the fighting in the built areas depends on the element of surprise greatly, as the resistance appears in areas that the occupation army expects to have been controlled and “cleared”, while the fighters appear at an appropriate time, and carry out a qualitative process at this level.
He stressed that such ambushes depend on intelligence information and the distribution of duties accurately so that the force is implemented “the duty assigned to it in a literal way that reduces the percentage of losses for the resistance and increases it for the advanced forces.”
Al -Falahi stressed that the occupation army always fails to confront with the resistance, because the latter adopts methods and tactics that change according to the nature of the region, the capabilities and the means it possesses during the confrontation.
He concluded that these operations greatly affect, especially as they targeted the elite forces in the occupation army, which is suffering a significant shortage of mankind, as well as these ambushes negatively affect the morale of its soldiers.
Al -Falahi did not rule out that the occupation army would restore his accounts in the matter of incursion into this region, because the bill will be exorbitant on both sides.
The beginning of this month, the chief of staff said Israeli army Eyal Zamir He issued instructions to his forces to expand the scope of the military operation to include additional areas in the northern and southern Gaza Strip.