PREVIEW: From a longer conversation later in the day about the challenge for the IDF in combat in North Gaza, where the Hamas have long prepared to fight, where the best Hamas battalions, or what's left, are laced thrugh the tunnels.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/12/15/idf-destroys-hamas-battalion-command-center/
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| 0:18.8 | and Wush Club card required. This is John Batchelor speaking with Seth |
| 0:22.4 | Franzman, the chief correspondent for the Jerusalem Post in the Gaza War, asking about North Gaza. |
| 0:30.0 | All Gaza is divided into three parts. North Gaza, Gaza City, and the neighborhoods close by. |
| 0:37.0 | Kanyunis in the center and the neighborhoods close by. |
| 0:40.0 | And the Rafak Crossing and what's left of Rafak village in the south where the refugees |
| 0:46.3 | are gathered. |
| 0:47.9 | Seth speaks to North Gaza how that land has been prepared by Hamas for years, |
| 0:55.0 | very comfortable for them to fight. |
| 0:57.0 | Why the estimate that we get from the IDF is that this will take months. |
| 1:03.4 | We're moving into a honeycomb of fighters, |
| 1:08.0 | the best they've got dug in in North Gaza. |
| 1:11.2 | Here's Seth to explain. Yes, the fighting in Gaza City is very difficult. |
| 1:17.0 | It's basically the first month of the ground campaign in November was Israel encircling Gaza City and sending units |
| 1:26.9 | kind of south of it and then going along the coast to kind of encircle it completely and |
| 1:31.3 | then go into all the neighborhoods kind of around the city |
| 1:34.4 | let's say the more modern some of the more modern neighborhoods like Rimal and also the |
| 1:38.6 | Shati refugee camp which was a densely packed area. |
| 1:42.6 | The second part of this campaign that kicked off on December 1st |
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