By Benny Avni, Special to the Sun | May 14, 2021
If all's fair in love and war, why is everyone on the IDF spokesman's case? For it looks like Israel has pulled off one of the shrewdest military feints since the eve of D-Day, when America fielded the First United States Army Group.
Just after midnight Friday the Israeli Defense Force spokesman released a carefully-worded statement, informing the press in Hebrew, Arabic, and English that "IDF air and ground troops are currently attacking in the Gaza Strip."
The statement was technically accurate. Tanks, artillery and other IDF units that can accurately be described as "ground troops" indeed joined the Airforce in an attack on Gaza...........Once the story about a pending ground invasion led major world press outlets, Hamas bigwigs ran for safety under the ground, lest Israeli troops would find and kill them. Except that Israeli intelligence apparently has had these underground facilities well-mapped. The IDF Air Force promptly started shelling the underground facilities. Air attacks first targeted tunnels’ entryways and exits, and later, apparently using American-made bunker-busting bombs, destroyed the tunnels, burying everything in them................To Read More....
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