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“Booby traps were installed and blown up at the tunnel entrance”… Hamas kills, hostage rescue disrupted
It may have been a factor in the hostage killings… “Aiming to undermine the legitimacy of the Israeli military and divide it”
Soldiers of the Israeli Army’s 98th Division entered Khan Yunis, the largest city in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Washington Post, an American daily, reported on the 22nd (local time) that the Israeli military is experiencing difficulties due to Hamas’ ambush and booby trap operations using various methods, including children’s cries and Hebrew.
Recently, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that there were reports of recordings of people crying and speaking in Hebrew being heard at the scene of a battle. The military command believes that this is an attempt to deceive the Israeli military, which is searching for hostages in the nearby area.
The Israeli military claimed that during street fighting in the Gaza Strip, Hamas fighters ran from building to building in civilian clothes, trying to trap Israeli troops with booby traps and bait.
Hamas counters the Israeli military, which has deployed cutting-edge drones and robots, with old-fashioned tactics such as deception, surprise operations, and ambushes.
Israeli forces operating in the Gaza Strip
The Israeli military released photos of soldiers operating in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, on the 18th (local time). Israel currently controls most of the northern part of the Gaza Strip and is also conducting ground operations in major southern cities. 2023.12.18 kjw@yna.co.kr
Local experts analyzed that the IDF is struggling to kill two birds with one stone, killing Hamas fighters and rescuing hostages, which is difficult to achieve at the same time.
Hamas boasts tunnels and ambushes in its war. They claim to be a small faction fighting for their homeland against an occupying army that is one of the best-equipped armies on Earth.
On the 20th, the Hamas armed organization Al-Qassam Brigade said on its Telegram channel, “The Mujahideen (fighters) of the Qassam Brigade were able to set up a booby trap at the entrance to the tunnel east of Khan Yunis,” and as soon as the occupation forces entered the entrance, it was blown up, killing some and wounding them. He said.
On the same day, the IDF announced that it had discovered about 1,500 underground tunnels and passages in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war.
A lieutenant colonel from an IDF reconnaissance unit that WP met said that crying was heard during an operation in a building in central Gaza recently, but the source could not be found.
Lt. Col. Lee also recalled a time in the past when a Palestinian man approached Israeli troops waving a blood-stained white flag. The Palestinian man later revealed that Hamas had told him to surrender to Israeli forces while the scene was being filmed in a nearby building.
The lieutenant colonel said he did not know whether Hamas, which was filming, wanted to film a scene of Israeli soldiers shooting civilians, or whether Hamas was watching its own troops. He said, “There is no safe place.”
Rescue call signal used by Israeli hostages before mistaken identity killing
A rescue request signal for hostages who were killed by mistake released by the Israeli military on the 17th (local time). On the exterior wall of the building in Gaza where the hostages were hiding, a white cloth with “SOS” and “Help, 3 hostages” written in Hebrew is hung. 2023.12.18 besthope@yna.co.kr
Some experts believe that this situation may have been a factor in the IDF’s recent mistaken shooting of three of its own hostages.
At the time, the hostages did their best to signal that they were not Hamas. He took off his top and was holding a hastily made white flag. Surrounding people are the words ‘SOS’ and ‘Help!’ in Hebrew. There was a sign that said ‘3 hostages’.
The IDF acknowledged that its soldiers had violated the rules of engagement at the time.
Koby Michael, a senior researcher at Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies, said, “(This trick) is intended to induce the Israeli military to enter the area that Hamas has prepared in advance as a ‘kill zone’.”
Researcher Michael explained that while recordings of people speaking Hebrew may become less effective over time, they still remain a provocation.
“It’s like saying, ‘Look, you guys are strong, but we keep mocking you,’” he added.
Israeli soldiers are probably already “tired and scared,” he said, predicting that Hamas’s deception campaign is more likely to catch them off guard.
However, national security critic Ron Ben-Ishai, who has reported on Israel’s wars for more than 50 years, argued that the mistaken killing of the hostage was not due to Hamas’s inducement, but because of the Israeli military’s ethical failure.
He said, “The shooting of the three hostages was done hastily,” and “it had nothing to do with Hamas’ tactics, which I witnessed firsthand.” He also said, “Not all soldiers behave this way. Most are very cautious.”
“Hamas’s tactics of deception and deception are not new,” said Netanel Flamer, a senior researcher in Middle East studies at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
He noted that Hamas aims to use the complexities of urban warfare to harm innocent civilians, undermine Israel’s legitimacy, create internal divisions and call into question the legitimacy of its military operations.
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2023-12-23 10:48:50
