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Hamas adapts its defense tactics as the Israeli army continues tu push around Gaza city
FRANCE 24 English
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11/8/2023
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00:00
Well, for more analysis, I'm joined here in the studio by France 24 journalist,
00:03
Owasim Nasser.
00:03
Owasim, welcome to the program.
00:05
Let's begin by talking about Israel's offensive inside Gaza.
00:08
Where are we right now?
00:09
Well, actually, we have a map.
00:10
We're going to deploy the map.
00:12
We'll see what are the areas of advancement of Israeli armed forces.
00:17
So here we see what's in red are the areas where Israeli forces succeeded
00:22
in advancing.
00:23
And we see that mostly we are talking about the seaside
00:28
of the northern part of Gaza Strip.
00:31
There are fights in Beit Lahya, fight in Beit Hanoun.
00:34
And the area which is still preventing Israel from making the junction
00:40
is the Shati Camp, which is the Palestinian refugee Shati Camp,
00:45
a very dense area.
00:47
And as you see on the map, they are all around Gaza City,
00:50
but not yet in the streets of Gaza City.
00:53
And we see the main roads going through the south,
00:56
meaning Arashid Street on the coast,
00:58
Street 10 cutting into also the northern part of Gaza,
01:04
and the areas where Israeli forces are in control.
01:07
And we have a photo where we can see which proves that the Israeli forces
01:12
are next to the Shati Camp from the south.
01:15
And on this photo, we'll see a big wheel, which is actually next to the port.
01:21
Here it is.
01:23
So this big wheel is south of the Shati Camp on the seaside of the Gaza Strip.
01:29
So here is proof with photo where Israeli forces are actually in control.
01:35
Yeah, we were talking about that theme park yesterday,
01:36
not you and I, but our correspondent in Jerusalem,
01:38
saying it's the only thing left of that theme park.
01:41
Now, when it comes to tactics,
01:43
what have we been seeing on both sides in the last 48 hours?
01:46
Well, when we look at the footage that was released by the Israeli army
01:50
and by Hamas, we can see there's a shift in tactics.
01:53
And here we see those are the images of the Israeli army.
01:56
So, of course, bombardment, as they are doing since day one.
02:00
But here we see foot soldiers on the ground,
02:04
meaning we are not in incursion mode.
02:06
We are in control mode.
02:08
And here it's an old Santerians tank made as a troop transport.
02:13
And here we see Javelin rockets on Israeli forces.
02:17
But the most important thing is they are on foot,
02:20
meaning to protect their tanks and their vehicles,
02:24
meaning also that they are not scared of being shot by Hamas militants.
02:29
Here we see the first phase of fighting in the outskirts of Gaza City,
02:34
open areas, small houses.
02:37
And we see that the Hamas crews were by two, a shooter and a loader, you see.
02:43
And here we see how they tried to prevent Israeli forces
02:49
from going into those areas.
02:51
But as you see, one more time, we are talking about open areas.
02:54
We're not talking about densely populated areas.
02:57
And we have another footage too.
02:59
Here it is also.
03:01
You see the footage of mortars.
03:03
So we are talking about 120 millimetres mortars to delay
03:08
or to prevent Israeli forces from advancing.
03:10
And one more time, we are in open areas.
03:13
We are not talking about heavily or dense populated areas
03:18
where this kind of mortars wouldn't be anyways efficient against advancing forces.
03:23
And this is the last phase of the fight.
03:25
And here we are seeing urban fighting,
03:27
as we saw in Aleppo, in Syria, as we saw in Homs, in Mosul, in Iraq.
03:32
And here is the hardest part of the fight,
03:34
either for the Israelis or for Hamas militants
03:37
or other Palestinians who are into this fight.
03:41
And you see the destruction by airstrikes or by artillery.
03:45
And in this phase of the fight, urban warfare,
03:47
destructions like this become an asset for the defender.
03:51
And they prevent actually the attacking forces from attacking very, very fast.
03:57
So this is the hardest part of the fight.
03:59
And we're going to see also on this footage,
04:01
because Israeli forces will be shot at from above and from beneath.
04:07
And here we see from high buildings with only a simple Kalashnikov,
04:11
you can prevent a convoy from advancing.
04:15
And as you see on those pictures, because as we talked earlier also,
04:19
you only see tanks advancing, bulldozers, but no on foot soldiers,
04:23
meaning those are incursion areas and not controlled areas yet.
04:29
Okay, and just lastly, I mean, do we know anything more about what Israel has planned
04:33
for the post-conflict scenario there in Gaza?
04:36
Well, actually, the Israeli prime minister was vocal about controlling Gaza,
04:40
the security in Gaza, but we don't know how it's going to unfold.
04:43
Because even the Americans, Blinken said that they do not,
04:47
they wouldn't accept a new occupation of Gaza.
04:50
But beside this political aspect of it, occupying Gaza militarily
04:54
would be very costly for the Israeli forces,
04:57
and materially and in human resources.
05:01
And I don't know if they want to go into such a thing
05:03
after being withdrawn from Gaza in 2005.
05:07
Another option was on the table, meaning international forces, you see.
05:11
But we were commemorating a few days ago,
05:14
the attack on French forces in Beirut back in 1983,
05:18
where French and American Marines forces and Italian forces
05:21
were supposed to monitor Beirut after the Israeli invasion in 1982.
05:27
And we know that the Marines lost many men, the French lost many men.
05:30
So which country today will accept to put on foot soldiers in Gaza
05:36
to monitor the security in Gaza?
05:38
So the question still is open as we speak,
05:42
because even the Palestinian Authority was kicked out of Gaza by Hamas.
05:45
So I don't know if they have the means or the political will
05:48
to go back into Gaza and to control Gaza.
05:51
So this is the most important question
05:53
that should be answered after the end of the fight.
05:56
Okay. Colonel-General Fawzi Nasser, thank you very much indeed for your analysis.
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