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The Type 56 submachine gun blew up the Israeli assault rifle
On the battlefield in Gaza, although Hamas cannot be compared with Israel in terms of weapons, the firepower of Hamas commandos has surpassed that of the Israeli army's squad platoon units. As a result, in a series of skirmishes in Gaza, the Hamas commandos have always had the upper hand with great firepower.
The Hamas commandos mainly use the AK series assault rifles produced in various countries such as Russia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, and even a lot of 56-2 submachine guns (the continental version of the AK-47 assault rifle) smuggled from Libya.
At the same time, in order to counter the superiority of Israeli armored forces, Hamas commandos are overequipped with individual anti-armor weapons. Hamas has two anti-armor weapons in one infantry squad, ranging from Yasin-105 large-caliber rocket launchers, AT-3 anti-armor rocket launchers, to various anti-tank missiles.
For example, Russian and Iranian-made Cornet anti-tank missiles, Lightning anti-tank missiles, Competition anti-tank missiles, bassoon anti-tank missiles, Typhoon anti-tank missiles, and Baby anti-tank missiles. As well as, SPG-9 and M40 recoilless guns.
A typical Hamas commando has about 10 men with 2 anti-armor canisters and multiple high-powered AKs and 56-2 submachine guns. Hamas stands out for its strong firepower in melee combat, which is more suitable for street fighting.
However, the Israeli army is a completely different model. Many people may not know that most of the rifles of the Israeli infantry are semi-automatic rifles and do not have a burst function.
The IWI X95 assault rifle used by the Israeli Army is a series of stockless assault rifles developed and produced by the Israeli arms industry specifically for special forces and military personnel who do not normally use long-barreled assault rifles.
Maybe many people can't believe it at all, it's already 2023, and the main rifle of the Israeli Army, the little bully in the Middle East, is still a semi-automatic rifle, and it has no strafing ability at all.
This is because the Israeli Army believes that when fighting at a distance of more than 50 meters, when there is a shootout with multiple single targets, when engaging a dispersed target at a distance. Or a semi-automatic rifle is more effective, shoots more accurately, and can meet combat needs.
In fact, the U.S. M-16A2 assault rifle or M16A4 assault rifle does not have a burst fire function, and can only shoot single or triple bursts. It is said that it can be played to the advantage of the high accuracy of shooting of the American infantry.
According to them, the elimination of the burst fire function can prevent the big-headed soldiers from running out of magazines under combat pressure. It can not only save ammunition, but also improve the accuracy of shooting.
In fact, on the battlefield, it was the Hamas commandos who pressed the Israeli infantry and beat them. Because the role of an assault rifle is to stop, suppress, annihilate or deter the enemy with sudden and heavy fire.
Israel's conscripts, or temporary conscripts, who took a single-shot semi-automatic rifle to the battlefield, couldn't suppress Hamas's 56 punch or various AK47s.
There is also a more interesting thing, the Israeli army is rarely equipped with anti-armor canisters, because the Israeli army has little pressure to fight tanks. Fighting tanks is mainly carried out by the air force.
As a result, in the infantry group battle, Hamas is 56 punches, AKs, anti-tank missiles, and anti-armor rocket launchers. The Israeli infantry was a semi-automatic rifle and a handful of cartridges. Even if the Hamas anti-tank group was discovered to attack the tank, the Israeli army's semi-automatics could not suppress Hamas's fully automatic.
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Hamas snorted: rejecting Israel's demand for a ceasefire
According to the website of the Wall Street Journal, Israel has offered a one-week truce while Israel allows more humanitarian supplies to enter the Gaza region and hand them over to the Palestinians.
Israel's condition is that 40 more Israeli hostages be exchanged. These include all the remaining women and children abducted from Israel in the attack of 7 October, as well as elderly male hostages who require emergency medical treatment.
However, Hamas has refused, and Hamas has said it is willing to discuss the release of Israeli hostages only after the ceasefire takes effect. Jihad forces in Gaza have said that if Israel wants to return more than 100 hostages, it will release all thousands of Palestinians held in Israel and cease fire immediately.
Hamas is now hilarious. In fact, in urban warfare, Hamas is not so weak, and the Israeli army is not so strong. On December 19, Hamas reported that 19 Israeli troops were killed and wounded, and 17 Israeli troops were successfully attacked, fighting in six locations, destroying nine combat vehicles, attacking one Humvee military vehicle, launching two mortar attacks, three rocket attacks and one mine attack.
Israel's strongest air force is of little use in street fighting in Gaza, which has more than 2.3 million inhabitants. There are dense residential areas everywhere, and every target has to be reviewed.
It takes more than one hour for the Israeli Air Force to obtain target information, to the Air Force command to review it, to the intelligence department to determine the target, and finally to carry out the strike. By this time, the Hamas fighting team had already run eight streets into the tunnels from nearby residential buildings.
The role of Israeli artillery is also very small, and in one building, there are many floors of civilians, and Hamas is hidden in one of the rooms, or in one of the basements. What to do with the M-109 type 155-mm self-propelled gun?
As a result, the Israeli army continued to make mistakes, resulting in the killing of many fellow villagers, and even the killing of three Israeli hostages. Recently, the Israeli army said again that in the future, before the Israeli infantry fires, it will confirm the target for another 10 seconds before firing.
At present, the Israeli army has air superiority, armor superiority, and artillery superiority, but it is basically difficult to bring it into play. Ground teams fought, and the Israeli army's semi-automatic rifles were again suppressed by Hamas's fully automatic pass.
In urban guerrilla warfare, Hamas has a certain home advantage. Israel has countless advanced weapons, but Hamas and Jihad have never confronted each other head-on. It's hiding in Gaza, hiding in tunnels. Rockets are constantly being fired, and attacks are constantly being launched.
Hamas, Allah, or even Iran will not send a major force to fight Israel head-on. Because the five wars in the Middle East have proved that the Israeli army is the best at fighting large corps head-on confrontations, and the most fearful is urban guerrilla warfare.