Israel: why a ground operation in the Gaza Strip promises to be particularly complex

“We will launch a massive attack against the Hamas “. The message sent Monday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has the merit of clarity. Every place where the terrorist group operates “will be a ruin», he promises, after the massacre perpetrated on Hebrew soil by the Islamist group. This business has actually already started. Since Saturday, the IDF has been carrying out the operation “iron swords» which consists, for the moment, of bombing the strategic positions of Hamas in the Gaza Strip: tunnels, depots, rocket manufacturing workshops, command posts and even homes of executives of the movement are targeted and destroyed.

But it is difficult to imagine Israel limiting itself to these strikes, however deadly they may be: the military response must be proportional to the trauma caused by Hamas. “This is what Israeli public opinion expects», underlines Pierre Razoux*, academic director of the Mediterranean Foundation for Strategic Studies…