The decisive battle is coming! Hamas's showdown with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reached its most critical moment
Although the United Nations General Assembly had adopted a resolution in support of Palestine's membership in the United Nations, it did not stop the Israeli offensive in Rafah. Israeli tank units have entered Rafah and have begun military operations in Rafah. According to reports, the Israeli side released information that the Israeli army has taken control of the Rafah port and has begun a complete blockade of Rafah. In doing so, Israel is preparing for the complete annihilation of Hamas by cutting Rafah off contact with the outside world and preventing Hamas fighters from withdrawing to other areas. Hamas, after seven months of fighting Israel, has also found a way to deal with the Israeli army.
Israel's tough military operation in Rafah, Hamas's insistence on resistance, can now be said to have entered the final decisive stage. Of course, this decisive battle is not between Hamas and Israel, but between Hamas and Netanyahu. Netanyahu's current position as prime minister is not at all precarious, and mass protests have erupted in Israel demanding his resignation. In order to keep his position, Netanyahu doesn't really have many options, and the best way to do that is to win in Gaza. As long as he wins Rafah, Netanyahu will have enough support to accept his disgrace.
For Hamas, it is also a decisive battle, because Netanyahu's goal is clear: to eliminate them completely. Hamas's existential issue is one of life and death, and in the context of Israel's reckless attacks, they must find a way to deal with it. Hamas has a wealth of experience in the struggle, and in the past seven months of fighting, it has not only preserved its vital strength, but also inflicted heavy casualties on Israel. Hamas is adept at using local tunnels and buildings as cover to engage Israel and launch attacks by surprise. Israel has dropped bombs on Gaza at all costs in order to achieve the effect of its attack.
Bulldozers, tanks, and demolition teams were all on board, and Israel began to adopt new tactics in Rafah
Despite Israel's attack in Rafah despite worldwide opposition, it felt pressure from outside. The United States has suspended the supply of ammunition to Israel, and Britain, France and other countries have also begun to impose corresponding sanctions on Israel. More importantly, almost all countries in the Middle East have begun to put pressure on Israel. Even Egypt, which had previously made peace with Israel, began to issue successive warnings against Israel. Against this backdrop, it is impossible for Israel to resort to its previous tactics of indiscriminate bombardment in the face of more than 1 million refugees in the Rafah area. Israel needs to minimize civilian casualties as much as possible, but also avoid its own casualties as much as possible, and this is the basic requirement of its new tactics.
Israel adopts the typical tactics of street fighting and slow advance, using special means such as bulldozers, tanks, demolition teams, and demolition teams to complete the demolition of one stronghold after another, and then realize the cutting of Rafah. According to Israel's new tactics, the basic tactics are to use bulldozers to knock down the corresponding buildings, thus denying Hamas a chance to hide and attack. In order to ensure that the bulldozers are not attacked while they are working, Israel has also installed an active defense system for the bulldozers. At the same time, Israeli tanks are on guard around the perimeter to avoid Hamas militant infiltration. In the course of the Israeli attack, the Israeli encirclement tactics were carried out, and the encirclement was carried out in different areas, and the encirclement was constantly shrinking.
After the bulldozers knocked down the corresponding buildings, Israel sent military demolition teams to dismantle the corresponding obstacles and then dig the corresponding trenches in the corresponding areas. These trenches are used to block Hamas reinforcements and to block Hamas's contact with the outside world within the encirclement. In response to the problem of the tunnel exits operated by Hamas, Israel has dispatched demolition teams. As soon as a shaft connected to the Hamas tunnel is found, the demolition team demolishes it. Israel has continuously compressed the encirclement and imposed a blockade on tunnels, thus squeezing Hamas's living space step by step.
The tactics adopted by Israel are to use its superiority in equipment and firepower to constantly encroach on Hamas's living space and gradually eliminate the buildings, bunkers, and fortifications needed for Hamas's guerrilla warfare, so as to gradually eliminate Hamas. By following such tactics, Israel will be able to trade the smallest casualties for the greatest results. It can be said that such a design in Israel is also very exquisite. If Israel implements its tactics as planned, it will be able to achieve its goal of eliminating Hamas with minimal civilian casualties. When Israel conducts similar activities, helicopters and drones are responsible for patrolling and monitoring in the air to avoid being attacked.
Hamas found that the situation was not good and made new moves, and it was difficult to decide the winner quickly in a bloody decisive battle
As for Israel's new tactics, Hamas also found that the situation was not good and began to adjust the new tactics to deal with it. Hamas fights Israel, most often using various tunnels and buildings as a cover to launch attacks on Israel in the most sudden way. Hamas does not have the conditions to fight Israel head-on, but only guerrilla warfare with Israel. More importantly, Hamas has the support of the people in Gaza and has a sufficient public base. Now that Israel has begun to clear the buildings of Rafah one by one, there is no room for Hamas to hide, and there is no realistic basis for conducting guerrilla warfare in the traditional way. Faced with the new situation, Hamas can only adjust its tactics.
According to reports, while making full use of the tunnels to move around, Hamas has begun to maneuver with Israel by breaking up the pieces and secretly storing weapons and ammunition. Although Israel began to gradually blow up buildings in Rafah, after all, a large number of buildings in the Rafah area are shelters for refugees, and it is impossible to blow them all up, so that Hamas still has a chance to hide and exploit. Hamas's tunnels in Rafah are well connected, and they have been able to maneuver beyond the Israeli encirclement with full flexibility before the Israeli army carries out targeted attacks. Israel has adopted the tactic of dividing and encircling, but Hamas has adopted the strategy of jumping out of the encirclement and hiding for an attack this time.
Rather than adopting traditional guerrilla tactics, Hamas first hides and retains its vital forces in the course of Israel's siege, and then flexibly moves to the corresponding position to counterattack after the Israeli army divides and encircles it. Despite Israel's determination and Netanyahu's determination, the decisive battle in Rafah will be difficult to decide in the short term. Hamas is weak, but it is not alone, and it has strong support in the Middle East from Iran, Allah in Lebanon, Shiite forces in Iraq, Shiite forces in Syria, and others. It will not be so easy for Netanyahu to eliminate Hamas completely.