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In the Shijaiyah Neighborhood of Gaza City, "There Isn't a Building Where There Isn't Weaponry"

(Jerusalem Post) Jonathan Spyer - Col. Oded Adani is deputy commander of the IDF's 188 Armored Brigade, currently tasked with the conquest of the Shijaiyah neighborhood of Gaza City. As we look toward a row of ruined buildings, he says, "Every building that received fire is one in which we located terrorists....The main challenge is that the enemy hides, and then arrives by surprise, setting traps and making use of civilian infrastructure - schools, cemeteries....There isn't a building where there isn't weaponry. There isn't a school from which terrorists don't emerge. We see it." With Hamas military capacities tightly woven into the civil infrastructure, it has become impossible to cleanly divide the two. Lt.-Col. Tal Turjeman, commander of the 906th Infantry Battalion, said, "We find ammunition boxes hidden under the beds of children, rocket launchers placed outside of kindergartens. 95% of the buildings we've entered contain military materiel." He describes the methodical process of careful targeting, and then the application of concentrated, massive force.
2023-12-08 00:00:00
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