Palestinians in northern Gaza reported fierce air and artillery strikes as Israeli troops backed by tanks pressed into the enclave with a ground assault that prompted more international calls for civilians to be protected.
the disproportionate numbers can easily be explained - air superiority. this is something that the Israeli defense policy makers learned from history and is, in a large part, why they’ve been so successful in this campaign (if that’s how we want to define success). Israel controls the space in more ways than just boots on the ground - conversely, hamas is literally ground bound.
that’s just another aspect of why this sudden attack by hamas made no sense - they never had a snowball’s chance in hell of anything other than sowing some initial chaos and perhaps a quick and dirty territorial gain. it’s basically a modern david and goliath story except goliath controls all the stones and most of the slings.
the disproportionate numbers can easily be explained - air superiority. this is something that the Israeli defense policy makers learned from history and is, in a large part, why they’ve been so successful in this campaign (if that’s how we want to define success). Israel controls the space in more ways than just boots on the ground - conversely, hamas is literally ground bound.
that’s just another aspect of why this sudden attack by hamas made no sense - they never had a snowball’s chance in hell of anything other than sowing some initial chaos and perhaps a quick and dirty territorial gain. it’s basically a modern david and goliath story except goliath controls all the stones and most of the slings.