The Israel Defense Forces and urban combat in the Gaza Strip
Since October 2023, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been engaged in complex urban combat in the Gaza Strip. This article focuses on operational and tactical issues, analyzing how the IDF has dealt with this particular scenario. To do this, they have not only advanced to the interior of the Gaza Strip with their mechanized units, but they have also applied some solutions known for decades or centuries, in the case of trails. All while trusting in the virtues of technology, making intensive use of intelligence and seeking a way to balance purely military needs with the obligation to minimize humanitarian consequences, both for moral reasons and for strategic impact. that each civilian casualty - converted into a cognitive defeat - has for Israel. Index The difficult operational scenario for the Defense Forces of [Keep reading…]