Israel flooded Khan Younis and achieved great results!Is Israel winning this battle?
The war in the Gaza Strip has been going on for nearly seven weeks, and Israel is continuing to fight against the Hamas forces in the Gaza Strip, with frequent successes. A few days ago, news came that the Israeli army had entered the downtown area of Khan Younis, the most important city in the southern Gaza Strip.
But we need to know that the Israeli army's incursion into the area of Khan Younis city center does not indicate a complete occupation of the city, it only means that the Israeli army has reached this point. Moreover, because the Hamas armed forces are relatively backward in their own equipment, they are not prepared to fight a city defense war with the Israeli army, and now the Hamas armed forces are mainly hiding underground to fight Israel. Therefore, the fact that Israel has invaded the center of Khan Younis does not mean that Hamas has been completely eliminated.
The Israeli army's operations in Khan Younis, according to their own war reports, seem to have yielded fairly good results.
According to the Israeli army, severe damage was caused to the underground tunnels of Hamas in Khan Younis and nearby areas by means of flooding. After the flooding, the equipment and supplies that the Hamas forces had placed underground suffered great losses. The personnel could not stay underground anymore and came out one after another to surrender.
So this seems to be a big result for Israel, right?Not really.
Because there are many more effective ways to face the enemies in the underground tunnels than flooding, such as using ** bombs. Sending **-type bombs directly underground and destroying underground structures with shock waves can also kill the opponent's personnel, and the efficiency is much better than water irrigation.
Worse still, detonate a cloudburst bomb underground. The cloudburst bomb is to fill the entire tunnel with ** gas first, and then detonate it. After detonation, the shock wave will cause ** of the insiders, and will also burn all the air in the underground passage, and the personnel inside will die due to the inability to breathe. In the Vietnam War, when the U.S. military used cloud burst bombs, it caused a lot of damage to the Vietnamese side.
So why did Israel use the ancient method of irrigation against Hamas this time, and hyped it up?
Quite simply, water is not that vicious, and flooding also leaves a chance for people underground to escape. On the one hand, Israel's flooded tunnels are intended to show that we now have a way to deal with Hamas's tunnels. On the other hand, it means that we are still humane.
But humanity means that the Israeli army will not achieve much success!If Israel continues to fight like this, it will soon be victorious.
Now the Israeli army is fighting well in the area of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, and Khan Younis is a very important center for Hamas. This is because the main military leaders of Hamas were born in Khan Younis, and Hamas has a relatively strong mass base here. After the Israeli army struck at this place, Khan Younis's defenses are now basically in a state of collapse.
Now it seems that Israel can inflict heavy losses on Hamas militarily. However, it is difficult for Israel to completely address the hidden danger of Hamas.
First of all, Hamas's political forces are now all missing, and some of its leaders have disappeared from Tahr and Iran.
Secondly, according to Al Jazeera, Palestinian support for Hamas is now on the rise after seven weeks of resistance.
So no matter how many Hamas members die in the Gaza Strip, he can easily find the same supporters outside. In that case, it may not be so easy for the Israeli army to win the war. Because it is not only a military war, but also a political war. And Israel may win the military and lose the politics.