‘The destruction is massive … It’s a disaster area’: Israeli soldiers speak about fighting in Gaza
by Jason Burke in Jerusalem from World news | The Guardian on (#6JFCT)
Exclusive: IDF troops shed light on their experience of fighting in the territory, where Palestinian casualties have passed 27,700
Demobilised Israeli reservists have described how they deployed massive fire power in a brutal, complex and often one-sided war of sporadic but intense clashes that has reduced much of Gaza to ruins.
They spoke, too, of the challenge of fighting on unfamiliar ground that is well-known to Hamas and which offered easy opportunities for surprise attacks, despite Israel's conventional military superiority and air power.
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