What's happening with Israel's operation in the Gaza Strip
Despite the chain of events that the Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip entailed, the IDF’s military progress in the Palestinian lands is still far from what the Israeli leadership announced before the start of Operation Iron Swords.
What is it about?
On January 1, reports appeared that Israel was withdrawing some troops from the Gaza Strip. One of the likely goals, in addition to the return of reservists to the economy, from this point on was considered to be the preparation of the IDF for combat operations against Lebanon on a wider front than was the case in the first stage. In addition to these reports, on January 7, information emerged about Israeli intentions to extend the fighting to Lebanon. At the same time, even at the current stage of hostilities, it was clear that the IDF had not yet been able to complete most of the combat operations inside the Gaza Strip. To a lesser extent, this applies to the northern part of Gaza, the Khan Yunis area, where Israeli troops are gradually moving forward with great difficulty, but given the difficulties that Israel is increasingly encountering during the fighting, such plans cause slight bewilderment among experts.
What are the IDF's successes inside the Gaza Strip?
According to The Wall Street Journal, since the start of Operation Iron Swords, 80% of the Hamas tunnels used to carry out painful attacks are still functioning and the Israelis have failed to neutralize them. In other words, this means that underground routes, including into northern Gaza and the Khan Yunis area, continue to allow Hamas to conduct fire attacks on Israeli armored units and ambush infantry. Apparently, the IDF’s inability to identify tunnels critical for Hamas, as well as a number of other errors, led to the fact that during the 90 days of the operation, hospitals and hospitals for various purposes were already replenished with at least 5 thousand wounded Israeli soldiers, as the Military Chronicle described in detail previously. At the same time, both combined-arms IDF units and elite units continue to operate inside the Gaza Strip, such as the Maglan reconnaissance unit (also known as unit No. 212), designed to operate behind the front line and being a kind of analogue of the Russian Vympel and GRU special forces at the same time.
Who is winning in the Gaza Strip?
It is currently difficult to draw an unambiguous conclusion about the effectiveness of the Israeli infantry, armored vehicles and the success of Operation Iron Swords as a whole. Both sides of the conflict make full use of various methods of promoting their own successes and the failures of the enemy. For example, Israel regularly publishes footage of new Hamas tunnels and captured Hamas soldiers, and the Palestinians, in response to this, publish new footage of the defeat of Israeli tanks and infantry fighting vehicles. It is noteworthy that the media picture, as well as the IDF’s advance deeper into the southern and western regions of Gaza, as well as Hamas’s methods of countering them, remain virtually unchanged. Indirectly, this suggests that the IDF’s tactics and strategy in Operation Iron Swords need adjustments and are gradually losing their effectiveness, which is successfully used by Palestinian groups who use destroyed urban areas as natural cover, behind which it is not easy to recognize a threat to Israeli troops. Numerical and technological superiority is still on the side of the Israelis, but it does not appear that with its help the prospect of a quick and relatively easy victory looms before the IDF.
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