Analysis: How did Israel’s military carry out the Nuseirat operation?
Omar Ashour, professor of security and military studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, spoke to Al Jazeera about the Israeli army tactics that went into its operation to free four captives in Nuseirat on Saturday.
Ashour noted that a day before the operation, Israel re-dispatched several brigades, including one specialised in urban warfare, into Gaza. These brigades began “heavy operations’ to the east of Deir el-Balah and Bureij to draw out Hamas fighters and “obscure” their upcoming raid on Nuseirat, he said.
Then, Israel’s military launched an intense assault on Nuseirat, which is highly densely populated, he said, as they went in to get the captives. It was far from a surgical operation and closer to a breaching operation, Ashour said.
“The success part was the rescuing of the four hostages. The disastrous part was the killing of over 200 people,” said Ashour.
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