The ground operation in the Gaza Strip will lead to the worst street fighting on the planet since World War II. This opinion was published by the newspaper. New York Times.
Columnist Damien Cave drew comparisons to the Iraq war and the nine-month battle to defeat the Islamic State in Mosul in 2016.
“It will be terrible. Cities are the devil’s playground, they make the operation much more difficult,” said American Colonel Thomas Arnold, who studies such operations in the Middle East.
Cave points out that such operations in densely populated areas can also lead to high civilian casualties.
Earlier in a briefing, Pentagon Press Secretary Patrick Ryder said that the U.S. available Sufficient weapons and production capacity to support Israel and Ukraine.
Previously in the USA named Timing of Israel’s ground operation in Gaza.