๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ง๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ณ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ก, ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐ฑ๐๐๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ฐ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐ฌ๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ๐ข ๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐๐ฌ? (1/19)
The Gaza Metro is designed to evade aerial surveillance and serves as a secure underground fortress with a complex maze-like structure for defensive purposes. The first purpose was to serve Hamas and other factions alike in firing missiles, (2/19)
carrying attacks beyond enemy lines and retreating without losing the workforce; that idea was a must for the Palestinian factions, which suffered significant losses due to Israeli airstrikes on their operators once they fired. The 2nd purpose of the tunnels, (3/19)
the defensive part, has yet to be tested; however, the absence of defensive operational testing doesn't underscore its existence and difficulty. (4/19)
None of the points made before surprises Israel; Israeli intelligence worked relentlessly for years to map these tunnels and augment what they look like from the inside, which points ends to something and what tunnels are one-way graves. But, imagining something, (5/19)
knowing of its existence and augmenting what a fight inside these tunnels is fictional with a bit of reality; crawling inside one of them is the battle where there is no "restart" button. Israel knows that, and Hamas built them for that exact purpose. (6/19)
Can Israel conquer the tunnels? Can they use previous lessons learnt from Vietnam's "Cแปง Chi tunnels"? The answer to both questions is "let's wait and see". (7/19)
Lessons from Vietnam of pumping tear and nerve gases inside the tunnels are only practical if Hamas hasn't read that chapter in history, (8/19)
which we mostly doubt; they might have a countermeasure to this tactic already in place along with motion sensors that trigger a specific alarm for their militants to prepare for chemical warfare, wear your masks. (9/19)
Israeli soldiers have two options in fighting the tunnels: close combat inside the tunnels, where the soldiers will be exposed to surprises they have never experienced in drills, to capture a senior Hamas leader alive or to free hostages. The 2nd option is Hannibal, (10/19)
by turning these tunnels into graves for Hamas militants & the hostages without entering them by blowing them up by dropping a massive bomb inside the opening. The 2nd scenario may serve the operational level of the Israeli forces on the ground. Still, (11/19)
it won't serve the political leaders, especially Netanyahu, who wants a public trial of such Hamas leaders.Can robots penetrate the tunnels and give Israel an insight before taking action? Yes, but Hamas would know from the moment a robot crawls inside. (12/19)
As mentioned earlier in the BLUF, the tunnels were built to defend; there could be sensors that trigger an alarm and CCTV cameras that can allocate such as a robot and define if it's for ISR purposes or a kamikaze robot that will blow up once it encounters the militants. (13/19)
Tunnel warfare is never easy; troops simulate a tunnel based on what they have discovered before and act as if it is the reality they will face, but it is not. It's a simulation for something they have never seen, don't have experience in combat, (14/19)
nor won a battle inside one of them. What awaits the Israeli forces is the unknown, as open as this suggestion can be, and those who built the tunnels know how to fight inside them, (15/19)
how to escape from them and turn this narrow walking space into hell for the most sophisticated special forces on this planet. (16/19)
One can only imagine that this battle might go down in history as an impressive win for classic and hybrid armies against organised paramilitaries and freedom fighters or a catastrophic loss of these armies that lived too long in the myth of technology that beats (17/19)
everything. (18/19)
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