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To: bull_dozer who wrote (15126)	10/31/2023 7:38:26 PM
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Military briefing: How Hamas fights For more than a decade, Israel’s military leadership grudgingly acknowledged one overriding trait in its Gaza enemy: Hamas knew how to bide its time. “Let the beast sleep until you’re ready,” was the mantra of Mahmoud Ajrami, a veteran Palestinian fighter who has trained a generation of Gaza militants. The examples were aplenty. In 2018, Hamas released images of Israeli soldiers in the crosshairs of its snipers — the shot never taken, even as the Israelis shot at protesters at the border fence. Another video showed militants destroying a military bus with a Kornet missile — but waiting for the soldiers to disembark and the driver to take a cigarette break. The apparent restraint was interpreted by Israel as a sign that Hamas was deterred. But to Ajrami, the militant group was merely waiting to draw Israel into a battle at the time of its choosing. “Bring the beast to me, and we will slay it together,” he vowed to fighters outside his palatial villa in 2021, after Hamas claimed victory over Israel in an 11-day war that involved a ferocious exchange of Palestinian rockets and Israeli air strikes — but no ground troops. .. .. .. As recently as August, Major General Yitzhak Brik, a former military ombudsman, warned that Israel was “not ready for war”. Its soldiers have not fought a major land battle since 2014 — the last time it deployed troops inside Gaza — and its top brass has been consumed by potential threats from Iran, rather than the territory right next door. Meanwhile, Hamas had grown ever stronger militarily since 2008-09, when it first fought an Israeli ground assault, military officials and analysts said. Even then, Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigade, fielded 16,000 fighters alongside 2,000 dedicated combat troops. Now, according to the IDF, it has as many as 40,000 elite fighters, and an arsenal of drones and about 30,000 rockets. It has fired 8,500 since October 7, draining Israel’s Iron Dome interceptors to the point where the US had to fly in replacements. ft.com