Does Israel have the stomach to drive Hamas out of the tunnels under Gaza? From Svetlana Ekimento at sputnikglobe.com:
Amid the latest escalation of the Palestine-Israel conflict, the IDF has intensified both its heavy air bombardment of Gaza, and its ground assault on the enclave, including carrying out strikes on civilian infrastructure in densely populated areas that the Israeli military claims is being used by Hamas militants.
If the Israeli military hope to defeat Hamas in Gaza, they need to get all the way down to the underground tunnels, veteran former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, and UN weapons inspector, Scott Rittertells Sputnik.
But Israel doesn’t want to do that, because “they want war on the cheap,” the geopolitical observer emphasized.
“They’re fighting above ground. They’re doing limited tunnel operations. But they’re not succeeding in defeating Hamas. To defeat Hamas, you’ve got to go all the way underground, and you’ve got to shut down the entire tunnel network.”
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