DeansMusings

P art 7 – The war against Hezbollah It has been just over a month since the IDF began a full-fledged war against Hezbollah. Before analyzing that, it would be useful to see how operations against both Hamas and Hezbollah have taken place compared to what I predicted in previous posts. Hamas: In my post of 25 Aug I had suggested that the fighting against Hamas was largely over and Hamas, having lost the bulk of its fighters was incapable of offering organized resistance. I had identified three IDF divisions that would handle Gaza, not by occupying the whole Gaza strip but by cutting it off from outside support and cutting parts of Gaza from each other, by occupying corridors. The IDF would them conduct air strikes, or limited ground incursions against Hamas fighters, until Hamas’s fighting ability is fully degraded. As suggested, the 162 nd , 252 and 143 rd Divisions have, since the beginning of Sept, been the only formations operating against Hamas in Gaza. As both the 252 nd a