Colonel Richard Kemp says Hamas will have prepared ambush points and would use IEDs, mortars and suicide bombers
Hamas will have prepared ambush positions and booby traps ahead of any ground invasion of Gaza by IDF forces, an ex-British Army commander said said Hamas will have spent time before and after the 7 October massacres in Israel fortifying their positions ahead of an expectedAn underground Hamas tunnel in Gaza in August, 2014 Tens of thousands of Israeli troops with tanks and weapons have massed along the border of Gaza, where 222 hostages are confirmed as being held captive, with 300,000 IDF...
“They have had plenty of time to prepare. Before they attacked Israel, they will have known that it was highly likely the IDF will carry out operations against them from the air and probably expected there will be ground operations as well.” The focus of the IDF’s operation was likely to initially be Gaza City where the fighting would be made even more deadly by Hamas tunnels used to store weapons and move attack teams around to ambush Israeli forces, he continued.
“I think one of the differences between, for example, British troops fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, and places like that, is that these people are fighting on their own doorstep. On Sunday, Israel says its forces went west of the Gaza Strip fence to clear the area of terrorists and weapons, and try and find hostages, with one solider killed and three others injured when Hamas fired rockets at them.
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