Hamas Shifts Tactics: Use of Underground Explosives Escalates in Gaza, West Bank

According to reports, the usage of underground explosives escalated successful some Gaza and the West Bank. (Design: Palestine Chronicle)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Hamas has introduced a caller and deadly tactic, planting explosive devices underground to people Israeli soldiers successful Gaza and the West Bank.

The Palestinian Resistance question Hamas has been employing a deadly maneuver successful some Gaza and the West Bank, planting remote-detonated explosive devices heavy underground to people Israeli forces, according to a study successful the Israeli paper Maariv.

Israeli subject expert Avi Ashkenazi highlighted that the Israeli service “has identified a displacement successful Hamas’s combat tactics successful caller days, peculiarly successful the bluish Gaza Strip.”

The study further notes that much explosive devices, commonly referred to arsenic “belly bombs,” are being planted heavy underground and remotely activated. 

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The fighters show the movements of Israeli soldiers from concealed positions, sometimes luring them toward these devices, which yet leads the forces into the country of the explosives, according to Ashkenazi.

This maneuver has been nether surveillance by Israeli forces for immoderate time, with akin methods reported successful the occupied West Bank. 

Ashkenazi claimed that the 3 Palestinians killed successful the colony of Tamoun connected Wednesday, including 2 children aged 8 and 10, were planting devices to lure soldiers into a deadly trap.

“In caller weeks, a ample fig of fighters from the Kfir Brigade, Nahal, combat engineering units, and armor divisions person been killed successful the bluish Gaza Strip owed to this benignant of decease trap,” the study added.

It besides noted that existent upwind conditions contiguous a challenge, with subject bulldozers incapable to plow the ungraded profoundly enough. Meanwhile, Palestinian absorption fighters “manage to excavation rapidly and deeply, placing the explosive devices.”

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In a abstracted report, Ashkenazi and Alon Hachmon expressed concerns implicit the anticipation of a 2nd October 7 onslaught by Hamas successful the bluish West Bank.

The panic among residents of cities adjacent the seam line, and the increasing fearfulness pursuing the events of October 7, arsenic antecedently reported successful Maariv, is further exacerbated by the alarming statements of Rafi Saar, politician of Kfar Saba. 

According to Saar, “Recent events, specified arsenic the seizure of an RPG launcher successful Jenin, item the tangible and superior quality of this threat. The authorities indispensable instrumentality work and enactment instantly to guarantee the information of the residents.”

(The Palestine Chronicle)