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Hamas tactics exact high toll in Israeli ground thrust
By Noah Browning
GAZA, July 23 (Reuters) – Using tunnels, mines, booby traps and snipers, Hamas fighters have inflicted record casualties on Israeli troops waging an offensive in the Gaza Strip, applying years of training in urban warfare with a new tactical acumen and suicidal resolve.
The Israelis say weapons and know-how supplied by Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah make Hamas a more formidable foe.
Four days after Israel launched a withering ground assault on the Palestinian Islamist militants in their stronghold of Shejaia following intensive air strikes, the army still does not have complete control of the area.
Smoke from shelled homes and the buzz of Israeli drones clog the sky above the wrecked district on Gaza’s eastern border.
Bill Bard says:
Just a taste of their own medicine.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/07/hamas-tactics-exact-high-toll-in-israeli-ground-thrust/
