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If the IDF is given the time it needs, it will deliver the goods.The post ‘We are going to win’: Reporter joins troops in Gaza appeared first on JNS.org.

While the outcome of what is looking to be one of the most challenging battles in Israeli history remains unclear, one thing is certain. The war that the IDF has fought so far from afar with air and artillery is about to get far more costly for its troops.

As Israel’s ground troops drive to encircle Gaza City, the two sides could find themselves fighting a “three-dimensional” urban war - with combatants firing from the roof tops of shattered buildings, from the rubble-strewn streets and from the underground warrens, say military analysts.

Israeli forces are moving slowly in their ground offensive in Gaza in part to keep open the possibility of drawing Hamas militants to negotiate the release of more than 200 hostages, military specialists consulted by Reuters said.

Clashes intensify as Israeli Defence Forces attempt to isolate the strip

Ground war in Gaza may bear similarities to Iraq's battles in Fallujah or Mosul. But in Gaza, Israeli forces face an even more challenging geography.

Israeli forces are moving slowly in their ground offensive in Gaza in part to keep open the possibility of drawing Hamas militants to negotiate the release of more than 200 hostages, military specialists consulted by Reuters said. The relative caution with which Israeli troops have taken and secured slices of territory in the first days of sustained ground incursions in Gaza stands in contrast to the past three weeks of unrelenting air strikes on the Mediterranean enclave, as well as to Israel&...

What lies in wait for Israeli ground troops in Gaza, security sources say, is a Hamas tunnel network hundreds of kilometres long and up to 80 metres deep,

Former Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin: If Sinwar thinks he can play for time, hes absolutely wrong.The post IDF ground forces stay in north Gaza as incursion expands appeared first

Israel-Hamas war: The Palestinian Islamist group has different kinds of tunnels running beneath the sandy 360-sq-km coastal strip and its borders - including attack, smuggling, storage and operational burrows, Western and Middle East sources familiar with the matter said.