Tactical Lessons From The War in Gaza
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Today we look at some lessons learned from the initial operations by the Israel Defense Forces in the northern portion of the Gaza Strip. This is all pulled from the recent RUSI report linked below.
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@@PrestonStewart Palestinians should do that test too to settle this conflict once and for all….
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Part of the friendly fires accidents and miss identifications in the early days of the war was also due to Hamas terrorists wearing stolen IDF uniforms making it harder to tell friends from foes
The Apache helicopters and the Hannibal directive have nothing to do it…..
But yes yes keep telling me how one of the poorest forces in the world managed to raid the most advanced country on planet earth yes yes it makes so much sense wow how can I be such a dummy dumb dumb they would never lie to us
@@awol333anothee clown
@@awol333absolutely not lol
@@awol333you have no arguments. You just cry “Hannibal directive” whenever someone gives you evidence of a good reason why Israel does friendly fire
Btw, your beloved Hamas does friendly fire. But I guess you are silent with that because it doesn’t suit your narrative
Btw, some of the worst videos of oct 7 showed the actions of those "civilians" if that's what they call them.
the are called Arabs.
Here a couple of racist idf femboys
@@1czechit1 Let's not blame the whole nation, maybe 95 percent of them are like that but there's also 1-5 percent that are more civilized
there is no such thing "civilian" with Palestinians..
POV: Brits during the Usa idependence
Always appreciate your content!
Thank you for being one of my main sources to get a reasonable understanding of what's going on in these troubling times.
Keep up the great work, my man!
Appreciate that, glad you're here David!
As a Ukrainian, I have heard countless times of the Stalingrad battle, the russkies always brag about and give it as an example of German screw-ups, as having bombed the city made it impossible for tanks to move through and led to bloody melee combat situations, which turned a disaster for Germans.
Hamas also has tunnels and a city prepared for exactly this scenario. It is a very tough operating space.
"As a Ukrainian" Sure thing matthew from florida
@@Oboar Says the bot from iran
As a Ukrainian do you acknowledge Israels occupation of Palestine? Do you Empathize with them against a imperialist invader?
@@protoprime4213 "Anyone saying things I dont like are bots b- because they just are!" mr throw away account 😂
@@billyboy989 Palestine wouldn't have been occupied if they didn't commit acts of terror.
Palestinians have to answer for the crimes they have committed. Why were they cheering when they slaughtered Israeli and foreign workers?
I don't know if it's in the article, but one of the most important and ground breaking paradigm shifts in tactical operations was the extremely tight cooperation between the land forces and the air assets. For most of the IDF history tank crews were fighting with open hatches for maximum situational awareness - this was the doctrine that served them so well in the great tank battles of 1967 and 1973. With no real IFVs, just lightly armored m113 APCs, the infantry was dismounted for actual combat. The advent of armed and constantly available UAV coverage, with heavily armored APCs and tanks that both have top of the line APS and remote controlled optics - meant that for the first time in history the armored column could go in with hatches closed and no dismounted soldier in the open, fully protected while retaining superior situational awareness. In fact, for the first weeks a common tactic was to slowly enter a new street, baiting the enemy to draw near while the drone in the sky is just waiting for a clear missile strike.
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That sounds a lot like Desert Storm really, but that featured a ton of the same equipment like UAVs, tons of fighter-bombers, and tons of precision munitions too, although in Desert Storm Saddam had modern equipment but few UAVs and Hamas has UAVs but little modern equipment.
Another thing to point out is the latest Merkava tanks with F-35 like helmet which could “see through” from within the tank. 360 degree vision to see the outside of the tank with the hatches closed.
@@IsraelMilitaryChannel
Correct, however, it is the F35s that obtained the Merkava helmet tech.
@@IsraelMilitaryChannel 360 degree sight still can't see through walls.
Winning an urban war isn't that difficult.
Winning an urban war while trying to protect enemy civilians is nearly impossible.
Sorry buddy but urban is a promised nightmare lol
Well, they're not protecting civilians or winning
trying to protect enemy civilians? do we live on the same planet? IDF killed +20k kids. according to all the universal statistics, using 2 tons bombs frequently which even the defence minister of USA said.. USA never used in Afghanistan, in the most dense area on earth. You may need to read actual reports man.
@@MT-ot5edhey stop it he would be b hurt if he was able to read
@aaronkochenrath5863 @awol333 yall two are extremely disingenuous the idf has done everything they can to keep civilians deaths as low as possible while their enemies uses child soldiers their charter calls for their death and they still protect civilians while winning the war
I don’t think Israel had a real idea of the extent of the tunnels prior to actually going underground
We knew they had an undergrownd city, but this was bigger, they could have used it to make gaza a better place and they used it on that hamas.
@@Adam-wg2rf Lol, your propaganda is getting very old now, try to upgrade a little bit.
Better place how? These are people under occupation, and under siege, they are Palestinian refugees and their descendants. driven away brutally from their homes, in Haifa, Jaffa and so on. 25% of Mandatory Palestine population fled to Gaza(1% of the territory) in 1948. They are survivors of many bombing campaigns, and massacres, not one not two, many, including instances where civilian were just lined up against walls and executed with machine guns.In addition, large swathes of them were subsequently deported to Sinai, and were replaced by settlers.
This occupation will never let them have the resources necessary to create a "better place", they simply can't. they were only allowed enough not to starve, or not to revolt.
Don't be stupid, think! A rich and prosperous Gaza or Palestine will always be perceived as a threat to the Israelis. and they are right about it. Do you think 3 quarters of a century worth of crimes and brutality will just be forgotten or forgiven?
@@Adam-wg2rfthey could have used the resources to make an economy and then attacked us as a full fledged country in 20y and posed a real problem.
In Israel there is a very small amount of engineers, this is probably one of the reasons why we did not know about some of the tunnels
You can't make a prison better@@Adam-wg2rf
Working dogs in combat gets me upset every time. I understand their importance but their absolute loyalty and determination drives them into situations which they are not meant to survive which is tragic. It has to be heartbreaking to see them go down on mission.
It is, every operator with a dog anywhere in the world loves their dog, the Israelis are not different
The reason the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers ARE misleading and suspect is that they REFUSED to differentiate between Hamas members and Civilians. The layman who doesn’t follow the war closely but may just look at the numbers daily can easily get incensed at the high numbers wrongly thinking they are all innocents.
most of us are laymen when it comes to following the military sitraps on the gaza war. The general public is more concerned and following more closely, the level of autrocities being committed by Isreal on the ppl of gaza. The mountains of disturbing footage coming out of gaza is traumatizing to the regular person.
Lancet has a study that estimates the deaths are over 100k. H@mas number is a gross undercount. They are in a war zone with no infrastructure to count accurately.
@@gerri577source?
Even the women and children are Hamas? GTFO of her
If the GHM doesn't differentiate, how can they expect their enemies to do so.
The palestinian health ministry counts every militant as a civilian. They also use child soldiers there so they are obviously added to the count as civilian child.
The death toll will be mostly fighting age males in the end. (Based on previous reports in past operations)
and you just pulled that our of your ass. yes 20k militant children :) damn. for real dude?
And your face reminds me of the golden calf worshipers. History taught me whom I should never trust.
the IDF counts every civilian as a militant, this is what naturally happens when your objective is a body count. Same as it was in Vietnam.
@@internetandrewNO
Why wouldn’t children be involved in this conflict when it’s taking place in their neighborhoods?
For all of you with no critical thinking skills, Israel could have made Palestine a parking lot Oct 8th. Hamas started a war. FAFO
That is the dumbest shit ever how do you think would the World react lmao how old are you 12
Yes this all started in a vacuum on the 7th of October.....one of the world's most advanced surveillance area was easily penetrated by primitive means and took 8 hrs for the army to come....and had the Hannibal doctrine was used killing everything in sight
Have you heard of Talmud?
Yep. It really is that simple. It also remains the case that Hamas could surrender any time.
Note: Rubblization -
a construction and engineering technique that involves saving time and transportation costs by reducing existing concrete into rubble at its current location rather than hauling it to another location.
- Wikipedia
Sounds like a smart tactic in some situations, particularly if the existing concrete doesn’t wanna go anywhere
synonym for genocide
Tunnels are a nightmare for any advancing army
To be fair, "Rubbleisation" has been known, the battle of Montecassino is a prime example how the destruction of buildings and landscape helps the defender.
It's not just a calendar with the days of the weeks as you said... The title of page is "al-aqsa flood operation" in arabic. Certainly not something you should find in the basement of an hospital.
Very good and well balance reporting🤝🇫🇮🇮🇱
Have you heard of Talmud?
@@abdullahsiraj3217 No, i haven't🤔
@@TouchbyTonymikael2 very important to learn about it
@@abdullahsiraj3217 Okei. I gone learned it/that🤔🤝👍💯
@@TouchbyTonymikael2 thank you. It will enlighten you greatly
Gaza health ministry is hamas
No it isn't
Yes it is @@markymarktheroro
Yes it is, they control all aspects of gaza.
"The leaked horrific scenes that were obtained and published by Al Jazeera reveal how the Israeli army uses civilians, including injured detainees, as human shields and forces them into hazardous combat zones after installing cameras on their bodies and binding them with rope," said Euro-Med. "Each of the aforementioned acts of criminal, brutal, and inhumane behavior constitutes a grave violation of the rules of international humanitarian law, and is a full-fledged war crime. These crimes, and dozens of similar cases, require urgent intervention from the international justice system to ensure the protection of civilians, prevent their use as human shields, and hold the Israeli political and military perpetrators."
The whole government is “Hamas” that doesn’t mean they are combatants or even a part of the resistance. That is the same as saying a post office worker in Tel Aviv is a combatant and legitimate target
Don't tell your enemies your going to strike, otherwise they will escape, or put civlians in the area, or use it to say how you are committing a genocide by striking a school used by terrorists,or a hospital or etc...
Silence is golden.
Also always be aware about how a title like "health ministry " can be used for propaganda.
Zionist shill
You sounded like the Brits during the USA idependence. "They are traitors and they attacked Us"
Like the IDF when they Offline only Kids and Woman but claim +100 fighters were offlined
@@danielkjmwow you’re so smart
@@danielkjm so we are assuming that no Hamas fighters are ever hurt?
or do we believe Hamas that Deif is still alive and well? do you still believe that propaganda piece from teh start of the war where they claimed that israel bombed the hospital but turns out it was them?
I have so much respect for the Israelis because they understand all of the technical aspects of warfare. They understand intelligence, incorporating technology into warfare and dealing with terrorists who never follow the rules of war. I hope that the US and Israel continue to collaborate so that American and Israeli soldiers are safer in future conflicts.
Is israel following the rules of war???
@@gerri577 As a matter of fact, Israel not only follows the rules of war but goes above and beyond what is expected. For example, Israel provided advance notice of missile strikes when Israel identified structures in Gaza being used as terror bases. They would send phone calls, text messages and leaflets so that those civilians who wanted to leave could. This even gave hamas an opportunity to escape. Hamas never did that, even on October 7. Hamas massacred and mass raped women and children. Israel even provides humanitarian aid for Gaza while they are still involved in active war. Again, no other country has done that before, too. Hope this helps you. 🙏🤍💙
@@mightyoak11111 Hitler rained down advanced notices too. And are you trying to claim that 98% of UN member nations are crazy? That the reports they're putting out about the numerous war crimes being committed by isreal on the ppl of gaza are all lies?
Why did the ICC put out arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant if in fact they're innocent?
Isreali police let hostile settlers prevent any food aid from entering gaza. There's mountains of footage showing this.
And to date, there is no evidence that hamas militants raped any woman or children. If you have credible evidence please share!
@@mightyoak11111Israel follows the rules of war? You're so far gone all I can do is laugh at your delusional ass
@@mightyoak11111keep lying mate i saw ur army in action
I live in iraq
U r just liers who invade other
Super interesting article. Thanks for walking us through it.
I'm an Israeli and I get better news from Preston than from anywhere else! Wow!
I heard Isreali media is censored to exclusively pro isreal reporting.
Check out the IDSF and JNS. Amir Avivi and Caroline Glick are significantly better than this fella.
@@NoofGoof Are these youtube channels or websites? I know that Caroline Glick was with the Jerusalem Post. Has she gone off on her own?
@@dawntraveler42 JNS TV has a youtube channel where I watch her. She has her on show now The Caroline Glick show. I gather she's too critical of the current gov for them to put her in the positions she should be in. That said Preston's analysis from that essay he found is excellent but from his comments online, he still seems to hold the ignorant notion that the palis deserve their own state.
@@dawntraveler42 and IDSF is a think tank Israel's Defense & Security Forum. Superb channel .
Around the 11 minute mark: On Oct. 7, IDF did not have enough supplies for all soldiers right away, so variances in uniformity, due to individually obtained gear, are due to this. This war was not expected, not fully prepared for.
Lol, thanks for wearing the same thing on this one. 😂👍
Haha I mean it helps that I only wear the same 4-5 shirts and 2-3 hats
@@PrestonStewart I feel that, my wardrobe isn't much different. lol
@@PrestonStewartOf course 👍Exactly like, what i do😂
@@PrestonStewart omg, tried to imagine that, i.e., you putting on 5 shirts with 3 hats.
Much love Preston!
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The avoidance of high rise buildings by Hamas, compared to the use of both Russian and Ukrainian forces is interesting. Maybe its tunnel vision but I seem to remember lots of intense fighting in the high rise districts of places like bakhmut. Maybe it’s the IDF’s ability to destroy these buildings via airstrikes, as compared to the inability to conduct aerial fires due to both sides IAD. Kinda just spitballing but something to think about
Strange activity in those buildings would be a lot more visible to the IDF due to advanced optics on aircraft and tanks. Hamas knows this. Even snipers limit themselves to relatively shorter buildings and rely on a single killzone rather than on a wider area.
Lesson #1 : No need to protect civilians because they are all "Hamas" .
Half of the Gaza population are under 18. Are all children Hamas?
@@feikes1878 They will grow up to become Hamas.
@@SilentClouds if all grow up to be Hamas do you think all children should be killed?
All of your pieces are pretty darn good. This one, however, is an absolute stand out informationally.
Really good job, well done and thank you.
Appreciate that, really nice of you to say!
On 19:30 you can see UN bags found in the Hamas tunnel
@@nshex does UN trigger you? You know if the country is under blockade for 20 years, with poor access to clean water, imagine our surprise when the area has artifacts of UN presence. The demonizing the UN is so funny. Scared of everything? Or looking for every excuse to kill people who disagree?
There has never been a comprehensive near real-time review of Gaza Health Ministry figures during operations, nor an independent body count after the fact. They have determined that the Gaza Health Ministry's figures were reliable because they seemed plausible and didn't have too many obvious errors. The extent that the validity of their figures has been determined is basically that they did a cursory examination after hostilities ended.
The continued insistence that their numbers were ever correct during ongoing hostilities is so far divorced from reality to be indistinguishable from Hamas propaganda.
Also, those figures never were civilian casualty numbers, which is how most people interpret them.
None of this is valid when we’ve already seen hundreds of videos of blown up children in tents, they’ve starved everyone, and the IDF refuses to let international aid into Gaza because they cannot allow investigations into their war crimes
Excellent analysis. Thank you.
very interesting. thank you
At this point Hamas turned Gaza into a combat zone. Every cent and effort was put in to attacking Israel. These people are not innocent. We've seen the protection of hamas by the GAZAN population.
Children, man. Children.
@@cboffard8350 nah, future 73rroris7s
@@mucefitadonelly9457 you're unfit to serve.
@@mucefitadonelly9457of course, jews justifying the killing of children. Aren’t jews known for that?
@@mucefitadonelly9457jew is jew...
As always, your stuff beats anything produced by the Big News organizations. You should be very proud.
Great video, im actually from israel and been following your channel since the war started because i wanted to see a POV of an outsider who knows about conflicts etc,
you analysis is great and i think the biggest mistake israel has made in the "Media war" was not providing another source for casualties
Most of us hate Israel now for the genocide and apartheid the whole world knows about now
Outstanding run down, thanks!
what it sounds like to me in regard to the rubble problem is that the German army had the same problem when they attacked and began to move into Stalingrad!
How does anyone distinguish between a civilian and a Hamas fighter? What does a Hamas fighter uniform look like?
They don't have a uniform that's the problem
Just like in Iraq after the ground invasion or Afghanistan; they're dressed fully in civilian clothes.
A civilian is likely unarmed
@@DieNibelungenliad Also thought by many a dead policeman.
@@DieNibelungenliad neither is a hamas member who is dismembered by a 15-20 pound warhead... Unarmed, Unleggged, un many things.
The dog footage is amazing
Wounded Warrior is a scam. Just give your money to the actual wounded warrior.
Same as the majority of charities, if they started out with good intentions they became corrupt once they had money coming in.
All major charity organizations are a scam if you expect your money to go towards the objective. Nearly all the money goes to salaries, advertising and other diversions. Especially the ones that dominate TV advertising. Don't really know what to do about that but I won't be buying mansions and luxury cars for those people in the future.
How so?
@@neurofiedyamato8763 They've been busted for vastly overcompensating their "officers" while taking away from actual wounded warriors.
Yeah I'm not psychically wounded but have PTSD so bad I can hardly function but even trying to find mental health assistance they are trying to charge me more than it would cost to just find a bhm therapist lolll
I watch everything you put out and this video was excellent. I loved the summary of the report
Appreciate the feedback!
The comment about rubblisation was surprising. I thought the IDF would be aware of this prior to. Read a few manuals going back to WW2 and advised by urban warfare experts, that a city that hasn't been bombed to sh*t - its easier for us to identify EF locations because of the abundance of linear lines and the ability to easily identify and communicate locations. That is all lost in the wake of heavy fighting as irregular shapes help to conceal both us and the EF.
I was surprised by that aswell, all the sides fighting in the European theater in WW2 learned this, minus maybe Russia that still seem to think it's a good idea to level a town/city to the ground.. The battle of Caen(France) june-august 1944 is a prime example of this.
I think it is valued by them, but at the same time they take the tunnels into consideration.
As an IDF vet from the 2nd Intifada, I can say that the IDF has historically been so careful in combat operations in urban environments (such as Ramallah, Shkhem, Hebron, etc) that this simply was not a factor. We were under incredibly restrictive ROEs in Ramallah in the early 2000s, and places like Hebron included not just the political layer, but also historically irreplaceable sites that the IDF was extremely careful to avoid damaging, even at the cost of IDF casualties (for example, in 2002 there was a famous example of Pali fighters using the Church of the Nativity to shelter from the IDF because they knew it would not be damaged). With that as the background for IDF previous urban combat experience, going into Gaza must have been like a neurosurgeon being asked to make a chainsaw log sculpture.
Depends on what your objective is. Doesn’t make much military sense but it does make Gaza unlivable.
Super cool video!
Glad you liked it!
Being on the upper floors of a tall bldg in a war zone that is basically rubble is not a good idea. 1. Not structurally sound. 2. Drones, thermal, night vision etc will easily spot them. 3. If spotted you are trapped with no where to go. The same lessons were learned in the Revolutionary war. "Sharpshooters" climbing up in trees were stuck if they were detected. Climbing a tree or a destroyed bldg is NOT a good idea. Its different set of rules if you have the technology and your enemy does not. Think US Snipers or teams on rooftops providing overwatch in Iraq or Afghanistan. They did not have the ability to detect or call in an air strike. Mortars and grenades were the biggest threat.
There is a thought, that maybe there wasn't much of significant IEDs is because, all along and up to the very last minute, they didn't believe Israel will undertake the ground operation, and that, yes, nonither wntity/country will come for them.
8:29 "Rubblerization" was phenomena already known in Stalingrad 1942, probably even before.
Great to hear a sum of some of the lessons as this is far from a conventional war
Love your vids! Super professional analysis of this very complex situation
upgrade or change camera Preston? Seemed to have a little issue on auto-focusing on this episode. Keep up the good work.
The comment I was looking for as to not be repetitive.
I paused on a blurry spot to make sure I wasn’t having a stroke, I feel like crap today but at least my brain isn’t broken.
Ireland and england were heviky settled by norse warriors and traders. So thats where the scandinavian came from. Also the anglo saxons orginiated from southern denmark and north germany before settling in england. Infigured i could maybe give you some information seeing as you give me information all the dang time. Returning the favor my dude. Keep up the good work.
I told my s2 shop about your channel. They love it!
wonderfully unbiased reporting 👏
Awesome vid
Thanks a lot!
Mines? When did Hamas start caring about the civilian population?
Since the day they were created, to fight for the civilians that Israel would rape and kill before Hamas was created. Which is why 80% of Hamas are orphans 🤓🤓🤓
I know, right?? Lol, I said it outloud when it came up too!
What kind of propaganda have you been taking in to think that people don’t care about children and civilians?
“If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Israel, then I opt for the second alternative.”
- David Ben-Gurion
@@littlemac1208 Hamas routinely uses civillians like children in schools and sick people in hospitals as human shields. Hamas militants hide themselves, and their weapons purposefully in hospitals and schools to cause as much damage among their own civilian population and blame Israel
since when did israel care about the hostages??? It works both ways.
Please keep it up Preston. Your videos are insightful. Thank you.
Next video I suspect an English accent.
Excellent content brother.
Great video. Also, IDF is currently redefining some of the stuff we know about CQB. Change my mind.
"j-word" 😂 @@Cosmos-999-a
Thank you for presenting that report on the success or failure of tactics by the IDF in Gaza, Preston. You put a lot of work into this video. Thank you for being analytical and openminded. If only all reporters could be so scrupulous.
Thanks.
Very solid info. Definitely didnt think about things like IDF Credibility or even the use of Dozers before this. Love it, thanks for the info!
Didn't blackrock just buy my heritage?
Where did you get that from?
@@thomaslunde5014 the internet.
They did a few years ago
Very interesting, thanks very much for this - much appreciate the link to the source article, this analysis is golden. Btw something seems to be wrong with your camera, it keeps misfocusing on the shelves behind you during the whole video. Thanks again!
The UN just could count 25k death Palestinians, 15k of them are Hamas militants, so just 10k are "civilians". While Israel used 100k bombs only 10k are dead. More precisions is not possible.
The UN counted 15k Hamas deaths? Send me a link
@@DieNibelungenliad Where did I say that the UN said that? Read again and might notice that I just said that the UN count 25k Palestinian deaths. 15k are estimates based on military experts and stats of both parties. Israel said for two month it killed 14k Hamas members and at least another 14k are wounded. Hamas said that it has lost 6k fighters during the first 4 month, now if we do the math then Hamas would loose every two month approximately 3k fighters and after 10 month of war we come to 15k KIA, at least 15k WIA and another 10k still active.
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Send your DNA off in the mail? Yeah, pass on that.
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The advertisement @@kalinmir
@@mbburry4759 i know but in baffeled by the categorical refusal to send a saliva sample via mail
You shed DNA everyday and everywhere 😂.
@@Custodian123Sure, but you mostly don’t attach your name to it, and someone would have to purposefully collect it off a surface clean from other DNA contamination. Here you’ve sent a clean sample and I imagine the mailer has your name, maybe not though.
Idk man my cat can open doors if the handle is an L shaped one
Have the hostages been released? Have the rockets from Gaza stopped? Then the IDF should continue pressing on.
Mileikowsky never cared about the hostages or the rockets. He is simply using them as excuses for his genocidal purposes.
Crazy that the numbers of dead civilians keep dropping.
All those Palestinians have names that show they come from everywhere else but the area.
@@mrharpable from places currently occupied by the nowadays nazis
@@Cosmos-999-a why would the IDF ring people up and building knock to let people evacuate if they wanted to kill for genocidal purposes.
@mrharpable like Mileikowsky perhaps?
The high rise stuff is crazy, but the effect of “rubblization” is insane.
Fighting in a dense area, with terrorists hiding among the civilians and firing RPGs while wearing jeans and flip flops (even though they have military uniforms) makes the task difficult to impossible.
@@yaya_is_real
Doesn’t change the fact that they are a terrorist organization. Designated by the European Union, us, Canada, Japan, Australia and much more.
What else do you call people who hides between civilians, and kidnap innocent children?
Very good overview.
Two points that I think needs to be clarified.
Firstly the point of moving to a "guerrilla tactics" by Hamas. IDF contradicts that tactic by conquering the area, clearing it, withdrawing, amassing new intelligence and then raiding it again. That way Hamas tactics are not effective.
As shown in the very low rate of casualties from the IDF in the last few months since the tactic has been employed.
Secondly the casualty rate publicized by the Hamas health ministry. It is correct that in previous conflicts the numbers from the Hamas health ministry and Israel were very close. The differences were usually that the Hamas health ministry counted any person who died during the conflict from illness old age whatever as a deaf contributed to the conflict. Other than that the numbers were very close, and still are. The difference is that the Hamas health ministry makes a point of not distinguishing combatants from civilians. They count everyone as civilian. Plus youths carrying weapons are counted by the Hamas health ministry and therefore by the UN as children. Israel will not divulge its sources but has a count very close to that of Hamas but with the distinction between combatants and civilians only the US and a few European allies are privy to these counts.
In the end once Israel has disconnected Rafa from its logistical backbone in Egypt there's no way for Hamas to survive in the long run. And New York times article from a few days ago outlines that Hamas is willing to giveaway civilian control of Gaza and de facto has very little arm control in Gaza in that sense Israel has reached its goals.
Very interesting stuff
Israel cannot refer directly to civilian casualties as it would be distorted by the media and will be presented as civilians israel deliberately killed, so we have to go with what we have
Hi! If you're reading this, have a lovely day!
You too!
15:00 What I thought was interesting, from combat footage released by Hamas (or, at least shared by others) onto RUclips, was that their videos *always* cut right after their RPG round *supposedly* "kills" a Merkava, but the "impacts" almost always looked *exactly* like those from Trophy APS demonstration videos.
I suspect that Hamas/PIJ RPG munitions were a heck of a lot less functional than they were boasting about (and particularly their home-made tandem warhead variants, because fusing that isn't trivial to do properly) before the current conflict and their videos cut at just the moment when they'd have to scoot after shooting, as the Israeli tank turret slews around to return fire.
Who is Preston Stewart and why is he so cool???
Have you got a sudden urge for beans on toast and tea?
Yea but I hadn't been able to figure out why, now it makes sense
@@PrestonStewart Try a pint of Guinness, awful at first, but full of health benefits, like making you drunk.
@16:10 another reason IDF were mounted on the vehicle so they can see the threat quickly… it worked too
Fixed the audio I see
How much of what’s been going on in & being learned from the war in Gaza going to affect US & NATO COIN doctrine in the future? We hear about how the war in Ukraine is changing US & NATO doctrine for near peer warfare, but we haven’t heard much if at all of how the war in Gaza is changing US & NATO doctrine.
I'm old enough to remember when Preston dropped a heart on comments 😢. Hope all is well, love your videos.
Haha always try to, especially right after publishing!
I've often wondered why you never see strobes on the packs the IDF bring to the fight. The fratricides mentioned could have been mitigated substantially with this one piece of kit.
Them saying the "issue" of the information is that its run by hamas didnt make a whole lot of sense. You could say the exact same thing about anything coming from israel or any other source for that matter. Almost seems like a given
The IDF gave up "clearing the tunnels" and the govt has stopped providing updates on any progress on that.
Hello Preston! Thanks for another great video.
I read recently an article in The Lancet (a very prestigious medical journal) titled "Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential." In that article they go over the difficulties the Gaza Health Ministry has had in estimating deaths, but they indicate that this is *likely an underestimate,* not an overestimate, and state that over 180,000 deaths "may be attributable" to the war in Gaza based on a "conservative" ratio of 4 indirect deaths to each direct death. I would appreciate it if you could provide your thoughts on this in a future video.
that "article" was already debunked...
@@greenpanda84 who debunked it
@@yu6387t3d I don't remember of the top of my head, it's a few months old.
for the most part, this was a "latter" to the lancet, by two Arab activist doctors, with very flimsy substantiation to it's claims and math.
@@greenpanda84 The only article I could find criticizing the Lancet article was from "Forward," an openly pro-israel newspaper. Now I do think they raised some good points - this is not hard evidence of 180,000 deaths, as many on social media purport, but rather an estimate based on rough data - but I think that's fairly clear in the article itself to anyone who actually read it (probably not many who quote it unfortunately). The only serious contention raised against the article was the failure to distinguish between military and civilian casualties, but I think this is really an absurd criticism to make, as even if the entire estimated 30,000 fighters were eliminated it would be insignificant compared to 180,000 total deaths. And also the article was written by 3 doctors, 2 with Arab names, neither of which I can find to be 'activists.' It seems obvious to me that if there were serious issues with this article the Lancet wouldn't have published it or would have at least taken it down a long time ago after criticism.
@@yu6387t3d no, that is not, in fact, what the "article" says.
you basically quote it as meaning there are 180K dead, only that we are not aware of all of them.
The actual article's claim is that 180,000 are including people that WILL die in the future, "indirectly" from the war, as in people whose health will be worse off, etc.
it seems that it is you who at the very least misread the article itself:
from the article itself:
"Armed conflicts have indirect health implications beyond the direct harm from violence. Even if the conflict ends immediately, there will continue to be many indirect deaths in the coming months and years from causes such as reproductive, communicable, and non-communicable diseases."
this whole article provides un-measurable conjecture based on a biased premise.
The table shown at 26:00 is completely off. Israel has had 1631 casualties, with almost 1200 on October 7th.
I think there are 2 things that are being heavily under examined when people evaluate the should and shouldn't of this war:
1) Judging by the actions of Hamas and words is there any possibility if a ceasefire is reached they wont do it again, and does it really depend to Hamas on the status of the West bank and Palestine?
2) Would it be better to have a quick brutal war or a prolounged battle to save more lives in terms of total innocent civilian casualty count in the two scenarios.
I honestly dont think these 2 are being discussed nearly as much as they should on the topic of this layest round of hostilities.
Feel free to state your opinions on the matter but do try to be objective on your answers to them if you do.
1) The spokesperson for Hamas said on TV (Lebanese state TV iirc) that Hamas is going to repeat Oct 7th again and again and again until the state of Israel ceases to exist. And Hamas isn't recognized as representative of the Palestinian people, that is only the PLO. So Hamas is in no position to negotiate anything with Israel regarding the status of the Westbank or a Palestinian state.
2) For a quick war it's kinda too late already. But fighting it out till the end now will result in less casualties on both sides than waiting for the next iteration of this conflict. If Israel agreed to a ceasefire now and withdrew entirely from Gaza, leaving Hamas in power, then we can be certain that Hamas will re-arm themselves, prepare their tunnel networks even better and provoke Israel into an aerial bombardment or even ground battle again, leading to thousands more dead civilians in their claimed territory.
@@friedrichrubinstein2346 I wonder if hamas would have to do oct 7 again
if a ceasefire were reached and the palestinians in isreal were given their own state the way that the jews were given their own state? What would give them reason to have to attack anymore?
@@gerri577 Read Hamas' founding charter, their goal isn't to co-exist next to Israel, their goal is the destruction of a Jewish state in any borders. They call it "complete liberation".
@@gerri577 Hamas' charter makes very clear that coexistence isn't their goal. Here a quote from their 2017 updated charter, paragraph 20:
_"Hamas believes that no part of the land of Palestine shall be compromised or conceded, irrespective of the causes, the circumstances and the pressures and no matter how long the occupation lasts. Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea."_
@@friedrichrubinstein2346 you should know that hamas specifies that it's the zionists (european jews) that they aim to rid israel of.
Hamas has no qualms with the real jews in isreal.
Listen to them! They ALWAYS refer to their enemies as the zionists -not the jews.
Lecturing us as always
Innocent Gaza civilians looting?? Noooooo couldn’t be
Ah, a good old logical fallacy of hasty generalization, never gets old actually.
"Owing to a shortage of Arabic speakers?" I dunno, seems like having no Arabic speakers hasn't made anyone else lie about the contents of text they couldn't read... If the point of this document is to figure out where things went wrong, playing softball won't help.
Also, re: number of casualties, no alternative data source: I'd say the incredible number of casualties plays a role. Even if they're inaccurate, they'd have to be inaccurate by a VERY WIDE margin in order to make the number of civilian casualties remotely acceptable - also no mention of the IDF's alarming relationship with TikTok not helping in this matter.
A dog cant breach a door, but they know their way around a handle.
Scandinavian makes sense. England was partially colonised by norse and danes. Iberian may come from Viking trade to and from Constantinople.
Why would I need a 30day trial to get DNA results? Does your DNA change? This should be a 1 and done.
Cool it with the anti global sentiment
@@awol333 get a job!
Because they offer much more then just your DNA breakdown,
There's a "live" family tree, and you can find relatives, and it updates all the time according to the data base
Love ur work, thanks a lot!!
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I appreciate your dna test Preston!
the IDF is one of the best armies in the wrold and other armies have a lot to learn from them
Lol yeah, just level everything. All militaries are shit just some are less so and they ain't one of em 😂
@@codymills6429 Did you see the US army fighting in urban terrain? Lol. The IDF is doing a much better job, despite being far from perfect still.
The war now is 315 days in and gaza is still unconquered does that scream like competence
@@aymenyahyaoui1771 gaza could have been conquered 10 times if the idf didn't try to preserve innocent lives
@@aymenyahyaoui1771 You will believe whatever you want anyway, ahmed
Have a good day Preston.
Hey thanks, you too!
The IDF are extremely brave, hopefully hamas will be no more soon
Excellent episode.
Appreciate that!