(By Massimiliano D'Elia) Asymmetric war carried out with rudimentary means but which executed a strategy studied in detail, perhaps even with the external help of well-trained state elements. There are many hypotheses about the success of Hamas's military initiative on Israeli territory but almost all of them point to alleged help from Tehran and perhaps also from Moscow which, as is known, has established a relationship of economic cooperation following the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. very intense military with Iran (technology exchange on Shahed drones and Su-25 fighters).
Tel Aviv's rapprochement with Riyadh desired and promoted by the USA in recent months was probably the fuse that accelerated the armed intervention in the Gaza Strip until it reached Israeli territory: it had never happened before to see trucks full of terrorists driving around undisturbed between the villages, free to shoot at soldiers and civilians, even taking prisoners.
This time the feared Israeli 007s were put in check by an adversary poor in resources but very determined, capable of preparing an attack of this magnitude in absolute silence and anonymity.
Hamas overturned the numerical and technological inferiority of its forces by managing to implement a large-scale, multi-domain military attack: simultaneously from the air, land, sea, using simple but fundamental elements of electronic warfare to jam Israeli detection sensors.
Rockets without guidance systems, motorized hang gliders, pick up trucks and inflatable boats were used. They were all used together on the swarm model to saturate the capacity of air defenses, such as the super-technological Iron Dome which shot down many rockets but failed to shoot them all down.
In particular, the hang gliders who transported armed sappers up to the border fences were successful. Hamas used jamming devices to blind radars and make raids invisible from the air. In fact there was a combination of these flying men with powerful swarms of small drones, where especially in Sderot they got the better of the border defenses.
The men on the hang gliders with their swarms of drones have demonstrated effectiveness and lethality even against the very fearsome Merkava tanks. Videos of the destruction of an Israeli tank with a bomb launched by a common drone have made the rounds online. Drones like those used and produced by the Iranians, so to speak, and which are sold to the Russians for use in Ukraine. In action on the field, Hamas skilfully used some of the rudiments of cognitive warfare, flooding the internet with images and videos that testified to the capture of once unapproachable Israeli strongholds. The images of the prisoners and mangled bodies left on the ground after the conflict caused quite a stir. After the war in Ukraine, another front has opened in the Middle East where once unapproachable states are now uniting to fight the West guilty of having influenced world politics for too long.
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