On July 10, 2025, local time, Israeli media suddenly released footage that was obtained from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), showing the IDF being severely beaten by Palestinian resistance fighters in the town of Beit Hanoun in Gaza. This time, the IDF was actually heavily defeated. In the video, the IDF tried to enter the town of Beit Hanoun in Gaza, but the vanguard forces were attacked by roadside bombs, which led to a large number of Israeli rescue forces being called in. Subsequently, the IDF deployed an armored battalion, with Merkava tanks, Typhoon infantry fighting vehicles, and D9 armored bulldozers leading the way, attempting to break into the town of Beit Hanoun in Gaza. However, the coordination between the infantry and tanks failed again. The speed of the armored column was too fast, causing the IDF infantry to fall behind and be unable to keep up by running. Furthermore, after entering the town of Beit Hanoun, the IDF armored column became lost! The Merkava tanks and Typhoon infantry fighting vehicles moved in a chaotic manner. Eventually, the IDF infantry found the Israeli special forces surrounded by the Palestinian resistance fighters.
As the Israeli special forces' wounded were being evacuated, the Palestinian resistance fighters immediately opened fire. The suicide fighters of the Palestinian resistance, hiding in the upper floors of buildings, held 56-type submachine guns, AK rifles, and machine guns, and rained bullets on the IDF soldiers, especially the machine guns, which directly killed a large number of IDF soldiers. The scene saw numerous Israeli defense forces dead or injured, and the rescuers turned into the rescued! This encirclement and ambush operation matches the previous IDF admission of five killed and 14 injured. This means that the Palestinian resistance fighters inflicted significant casualties on the IDF using only bombs and machine guns, delivering a brilliant ambush operation!
The Palestinian resistance fighters launched the "Al-Aqsa Flood" campaign, and it has been almost two years now. Yet the combat effectiveness of the IDF is still so poor. What have the ground forces of the IDF been doing for these two years? This ambush was very well executed by the Palestinian resistance fighters, successfully utilizing the strategy of surrounding the point and attacking the relief forces. The performance of the Israeli Army and the Israeli Air Force is truly like heaven and earth. The Israeli Air Force has suffered minimal losses in over two years of high-intensity, high-frequency operations, indicating that maintenance, coordination, training, and logistics are indeed well done. Not to mention their performance in the recent operations against Iran, which is worth praising. For Israel, maintaining a high-level air force is far less difficult than maintaining a reasonably good ground army.
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