Sechster Nahostkrieg

[Quintus Fabius]

Über die Tunnel der Hamas und Tunnelkriegsführung im allgemeinen:

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/gazas-undergro...s-tunnels/

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/war-books-unde...d-warfare/

Hamas’s strategy is also not to hold terrain or defeat an attacking force. Its strategy is about time.

The group wants as many civilians as possible to be harmed by Israeli military action—as one of its officials put it, “We are proud to sacrifice martyrs.” It wants the world’s attention on the question of whether the IDF campaign is violating the laws of war in attacking Hamas tunnels that are tightly connected to civilian and protected sites. It wants to buy as much time as is needed to cause the international community to stop Israel. Its entire strategy is built on tunnels.

To destroy many of the deep-buried tunnels, the IDF has required bunker-busting bombs, which Israel is criticized for using. And most importantly it has required time to find and destroy the tunnels in a conflict in which Hamas’s strategy is aimed at limiting the time available to Israel to conduct its campaign.

This war, more so than any other, is about the underground and not the surface. It is time based rather than terrain or enemy based. Hamas is in the tunnels. Its leaders and weapons are in the tunnels. The Israeli hostages are in the tunnels. And Hamas’s strategy is founded on its conviction that, for Israel, the critical resource of time will run out in the tunnels.

Und exakt das darf nicht zugelassen werden, bis nicht der letzte Tunnel identifiziert, zerstört, geflutet, mit Gas befüllt oder anderweitig ausgeschaltet wurde.