
They could be setting a trap inside Gaza City or using tunnels to move south and await the attack outside.
Military analyst Professor Michael Clarke has stated that Hamas is not fighting Israeli troops as hard as it could. He said they could be setting a trap inside Gaza City or using tunnels to move south and await the attack outside.
Clarke also cast doubt on whether Israeli forces were really in the center of the city.
" It's still not clear to me if Hamas is really fighting this as hard as it can. I have a feeling that only a few of them are fighting and many of them have gone south and will just wait out the events. They could put up a much stiffer resistance than this if they wanted to, but for whatever reason, I think they don't want to or are trying to draw the Israelis into Gaza City and get them in there before they show up. really. But at the moment I think Hamas is not fighting as hard as the Israelis expected them to - or in as high numbers as they expected ," he said.
Clarke also said he was not sure Israel was in the heart of Gaza City - as the IDF leadership and Benjamin Netanyahu have said - but rather was still "moving in".
According to him they are being "still very cautious", taking certain areas around the city instead of charging.
"They will go in and then we will see if Hamas has set any traps inside Gaza City or if Hamas will use the tunnels just to get out of the way," he said./SkyNews
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