There is a lot of clueless news stories about what Israel faces if they try to weed out the Jihadi terrorists from Gaza.
the best analysis of what Israel and the local population will face comes more from military sites than the MSM who lacks expertise and are biased (I mean, the NYTimes spread the hospital hoax for days because they didn't check the story but believed the propaganda news release).
Urban warfare is wicked, especially when the defenders can hide in a city where they know where to hide (and in Gaza this includes tunnels and hostages, both Isarelis who were kidnapped and locals who support them).
The Philippine military faced a similar problem when Islamic terrorists took over the city of Marawi, where the majority of people by the way did not support these terrorists.
Here is a lecture/essay on the story about the lesson of the Marawi seige.
the site has a long list of podcast discussions there for background of the problems the military would face in this urban warfare situation of Gaza.
Tunnels anyone?
One difference between Gaza and Marawi:
luckily for the Philippines, the local Muslims did not help them because they were negotiating with the government at the time for a peaceful solution (one reason the outsider ISIS types did this was opposition to the peace process).
Indeed, they mention the local Muslim insurgents helped the evacuating/fleeing population instead of joining these militants.
But the end result of the battle was a destroyed city.
The costs of the Battle of Marawi were high. Opinions on infrastructure damage vary but aerial imagery indicates that huge swathes of the city have been devastated by the fighting – the mass destruction flattening entire city blocks. The World Bank estimates it may take two decades to restore Marawi to its original condition. However, the true price of the battle is that paid by the people of Marawi and the lives of those fighting in it. 165 members of the AFoP were killed in action, with over 1000 injured. Some reports indicate over 1000 insurgents were killed in the siege, which also took the lives of 47 civilians. The fighting drove over 400, 000 people from their homes.....
The Marawi experience suggests that such small teams, operating seamlessly alongside engineers, artillery and armour – as well as combat medics and military police – fighting as combined-arms sections, platoons, combat teams and battlegroups, are essential
They discuss who it took so long for the Philippine military to overcome them: The militants knew where the AFP was because they had drones, and they knew where to hide to ambush them. And the militants used middle eastern sources to beam pleading from kidnapped local hostages against the attack.
The Philippines used the social media to get their story out to bypass the MSM who often picked up the insurgent propaganda via their middle eastern contacts.
Like Gaza, they had tunnels in Marawi, and stored their munitions in mosques so that the Philippine military could not flatten these areas for fear of upsetting locals.
Snipers and RPG bombs and booby traps to stop soldiers from entering buildings also used by militants.
their analysis is that it took months for the Philippines to clear the militants who learned how to fight in the Middle East.
In Gaza, the population has had anti Israeli propaganda aimed at them for years, and an Arab street who believes the sophisticated anti Israel propaganda that is happily spread by a clueless local media (and alas the western media).
But the lesson of Malawi is that it will take months to clear the terrorists
Alas the propaganda outlets will continue to push every lie put out by the Hamas propaganda ministry.
Yes, I know: 300 thousand Palestinians fled Israel in 1948 and still want to go back. They have a reason to fight. And the IRA had reasons to terrorize people for 100 years too. And the communists insurgencies defended people's rights for 100 years.
But resorting to terrorism only makes things worse.
THE recovery of P10-million worth of shabu from the house of a former mayor of Marawi City established the "close relation" between illegal drugs and the ongoing uprising in the country, Malacañang said on Saturday.
And 2023 article. says it's still going on there.
guess what the Hamas murderers were taking when they murdered innocent civilians? Captogen (a form of Meth)
there is a connection between criminal gangs, drugs, and terrorism.
I suspect few Yanks watching the latest Denzel Washington Thriller noticed that the backstory of the local Mafia was about importing captogen and using a local winery to cover this smuggling.
Screen rant has an article about this: Equalizer 3’s Italian Mafia & The Real Camorra Syndicate Explained,,,,
The movie accurately portrays the inner workings of the Camorra, including their involvement in drug trafficking, money laundering, and kidnapping. While the storyline is fictional, it aligns with real-life events, such as the seizure of a large shipment of Captagon pills from the Camorra by Italian government officials in 2020.
Sigh.
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