A little over a year has passed since The Guardian of the Walls and the defense establishment are preparing for the next confrontation, which is not currently in sight.
In Israel, it is believed that Hamas will strive to launch a campaign against Israel in complete surprise, and not in slow decline, as has been the case in previous cases.
Success for Hamas will not be limited to rocket fire and the killing of Israeli civilians, and the required achievement for them is the abduction of a soldier and an offensive raid into Israeli territory.
Attacking targets in the Gaza Strip from the air / Photo: Report
With this in mind, Hamas still sees the tunnels as an important means of enabling elite al-Nahba fighters to reach as far as the fence area between Israel and Gaza.
Although the underground wall prevents cross-fence offensive tunnels, which will approach Israeli settlements, Hamas understands that a tunnel that will bring them closer to a few tens of meters from the fence will allow them to attack Israeli forces operating perimeter (100 meters inside the Gaza area where the IDF operates), or A jeep traveling on the Hoovers axis along the fence.
It is estimated that Hamas has dozens of approach tunnels, a few of which reach tens of meters from the fence.
Hamas continues to direct some of its efforts to rehabilitate the tunnels and preserve the underground medium for offensive needs.
The IDF estimates that the defense establishment has information about those tunnels, but for operational reasons the army is not harming them at the moment.
A year after a wall guard in the IDF claims that Operation Southern Blue to destroy the underground tunnel system in Gaza, Metro Hamas, was not a failure, although the attempted scam, which was supposed to kill dozens of Hamas fighters, was unsuccessful. Individuals only.
The IDF says that the goal was not to kill Hamas operatives but to deny capabilities and that the operation hit the core of Hamas' defense tunnel system.
In the last year since the end of Operation Wall Guard, a routine concept of protection has been formed along the fence, known as the "Iron Wall."
The concept is based on an inductive fence system, which warns of any attempted intrusion, an underground wall that prevents penetrating tunnels and a concealment battery, which does not allow Hamas operatives to observe Israeli territory.
In addition, there is a system of sensors, observation points and gliders that warn of any approach to the perimeter area.
In the defense concept, the army also uses means of firing and remote observation, which do not require soldiers to approach Hamas' range of fire.
Attack on an offensive tunnel with Nochaba operatives inside on their way to a raid on Israeli territory on May 11, 2021 // Photo: Dotz
In addition, the IDF revealed that during Operation Wall Guard, an attempted raid on Israel using motorized parachutes (Bakai) was thwarted.
The IDF attacked a warehouse of motorized parachutes while three activists planned to operate them.
The army is preparing for the possibility that in the next confrontation Hamas will try to use motorized parachutes of this type, and it is estimated that they have a few individual parachutes.
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