Experience tells us a land war and urban warfare won't go well - and faltering international support suggests the world knows it too
For the past four decades, Israel's experience of fighting paramilitary militias has been grim. Its last major operation was in southern Lebanon, which started with Operation Peace for Galilee in 1982. While initially successful, the subsequent occupation of southern Lebanon led directly to the rise of the Hezbollah Shia militias, persistent losses for the Israel Defence Forces , a withdrawal to a nine-mile security zone within three years and from Lebanon as a whole in 2000.
Then there is Gaza. Before the current war, the IDF fought four other wars in Gaza since 2007, primarily to control Hamas's use of rockets and its growing network of infiltration tunnels. The most significant one was Operation Protective Edge in 2014 which involved troops in a ground assault. In the event, they found the fighting extremely difficult, with the elite Golani Brigade experiencing serious casualties from the start.
From RTÉ Radio 1's Morning Ireland, Fran McNulty reports on the latest on the war in Gaza, with at least 50 Palestinians dead after Israeli airstrikse on refugee camp We need your consent to load this rte-player contentWe use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences
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