The military and strategic expert, Colonel Hatem Karim Al-Falahi, said that the ambush carried out by the Al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – at the Nabulsi Junction, southwest of Gaza City, came after the resistance prepared an integrated theater of operations.
Al-Falahi explained – during his analysis of the military scene in Gaza – that the ambush took advantage of the process of changing the Israeli military sectors in the region, indicating that he began a process of careful monitoring and control.
He added that the resistance chose the battlefield and the killing area with complete precision after anticipating the expected route that the Israeli military vehicles would take, leading to the preparation stage with barrel bombs weighing 100 kilograms each, with great destructive capacity, describing this stage as the most difficult.
After that, there was a process of monitoring and surveillance until the entry of the Israeli armored force and then the detonation of the minefield, through the continuation of the filming process and the transfer of the occupation’s losses and movements, all the way to the use of mortar shells to increase the losses in the ranks of the Israeli army, according to Al-Falahi.
He concluded that the ambush came after a complex operation that lasted for a long period, during which minefields and mortar shelling were used, and the resistance succeeded – within a short period of time – in employing the process of switching Israeli military sectors to plant mines in an area that had been under the control of the occupation for a long time.
“Hostile field”
The resistance operates in a hostile field after a systematic process of destruction and bulldozing, and it was able to exploit the ground and read the opposing party in a wonderful way, in addition to its high level of planning, says the military expert.
He pointed out that the resistance factions have accumulated experience in how the occupation army operates and adapts to that, as they adapt to the battlefield and take risks in order to prepare an integrated theater of operations, regardless of the capabilities and capabilities that the other side possesses.
He pointed out that the ruins of the demolished buildings had become a disaster for the occupation army after they were used by the resistance factions, adding that the area had been subject to mortar shelling by the resistance over the past few months.
The Nabulsi ambush is not separate from the general context of resistance operations, according to Al-Falahi, who said that they have been escalating in a qualitative way since the Al-Zana ambush in the city of Khan Yunis, last April.
According to Al-Falahi, there is a real problem in the performance of the Israeli army at the level of leadership, intelligence, and soldiers in the field, which is shown in the videos of the resistance and its successive ambushes.
