Posted on 01/10/2009 4:32:32 PM PST by Lorianne
The grinding urban battle unfolding in the densely populated Gaza Strip is a war of new tactics, quick adaptation and lethal tricks.
Hamas, with training from Iran and Hezbollah, has used the last two years to turn Gaza into a deadly maze of tunnels, booby traps and sophisticated roadside bombs. Weapons are hidden in mosques, schoolyards and civilian houses, and the leadership’s war room is a bunker beneath Gaza’s largest hospital, Israeli intelligence officials say.
Unwilling to take Israel’s bait and come into the open, Hamas militants are fighting in civilian clothes; even the police have been ordered to take off their uniforms. The militants emerge from tunnels to shoot automatic weapons or antitank missiles, then disappear back inside, hoping to lure the Israeli soldiers with their fire.
In one apartment building in Zeitoun, in northern Gaza, Hamas set an inventive, deadly trap. According to an Israeli journalist embedded with Israeli troops, the militants placed a mannequin in a hallway off the building’s main entrance. They hoped to draw fire from Israeli soldiers who might, through the blur of night vision goggles and split-second decisions, mistake the figure for a fighter. The mannequin was rigged to explode and bring down the building.
In an interview, the reporter, Ron Ben-Yishai, a senior military correspondent for the newspaper Yediot Aharonot, said soldiers also found a pile of weapons with a grenade launcher on top. When they moved the launcher, “they saw a detonator light up, but somehow it didn’t go off.”
Every soldier, Israeli officials say, is outfitted with a ceramic vest and a helmet. Every unit has dogs trained to sniff out explosives and people hidden in tunnels, as well as combat engineers trained to defuse hidden bombs.
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The NY Times actually reported this?
Freaking Amazing!
The NYT? Must be an accident. Soon to get flushed down the memory hole. Remember, take the blue pill!
This is the way to take advantage of politically correct warfare. Refereed by the Liberal mainstream media around the world. Myself I would flatten the stinkhole with repeated B52’s. Bit by bit til they surrendered or died.
These are all war crimes and violations of the Geneva Convention...wonder when the UN will investigate?
ML/NJ
Time to Dresden their satan worshiping donkeys!
Did the NYT fact-checkers miss this? The entire article is written in a "aren't they so clever" tone.
And that is the typical terrorist & UN a$$kissing NY Slimes we ALL know!!
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