Reply #5: I was thinking about it last night, between attempts to sleep. [View All]

[bemildred]

One of the striking things about this war is the rarity of dead soldiers. It's hard to be sure with the lack of news coverage, but that is sort of the drift out here in TV land. Despite a week or more of "intense combat" "deep in Gaza City" with "fierce resistance" we have very few dead IDF soldiers and an unknown but not apparently large number of dead Palestinian fighters of uncertain affiliation. It seems fair to think that Hamas had not made any attempt at concerted and active resistance. They have used lots of passive defense, booby-traps, but have not apparently taken a stand anywhere. Since they were estimated to have tens of thousands of fighters, one must assume they still have most of that force intact.