2023 Israel-Palestine Armed Conflict

Iraq showing solidarity with Palestine

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The Situation

Hamas had pushed as deep as Ofakim, the IDF are clearing house to house there to secure the area.

The IDF have retaken the Re'im military base and are clearing the area.
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Secondly, we see how costly this conflict has been for Israel so far
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I thought Israeli tanks were supposed to be good? Would an Abrams survive a bomb being dropped on them by a drone?
 
The Stolen Merkava's are funny as hell to me. While I doubt they'll actually do anything with them, the mental image of some dude in a worn adida's tshirt and sandals driving a stolen modern battle tank into battle has 40k Ogryn vibes to me.

More likely we find them just abandoned somewhere after running out of gas, probably burned out.

As an Aside, this is the second time in my life that I have decided to go to bed early and woken up to a new global conflict, and the last one was Ukraine. Hopefully this one doesn't turn into a years long slog.
If these Hamas guys are smart they'd burn down anything they capture but can't use. There's a video of some Palestinians throwing burning rags into humvee fuel tanks so at least a few of them are smart enough to realize they can rack up a lot of monetary damage doing so.
 
They have an Israeli woman here, she is probably dead judging by the position of her body.
Pretty sure limbs aren't meant to bend that way.
It's fucked up that her parents and family probably saw her like this before they even received confirmation she was dead. Today's western generations are wholly unprepared for the brutality of war and from the looks of it that has even spread to Israel since so many of them were caught off guard too. It's going to get a lot uglier once shit starts popping off in major western nations, these fundies have had a long time of "peace" to rebuild and infiltrate. Western nations have been told how racist and bad it is to look sideways at anyone with non caucasian skin tone and even before we went full clownworld there were idiots tut tutting about islamophobia. America as it is would do great against actual invaders, because our geography and population are well suited to fending off any occupying force. These shitskins aren't looking to occupy us they are looking to kill us, so it changes the response capability a lot. How do you stop some raghead from getting some of his pals to walk into a school or store sicario 2 style when he already plans to die as long as he's taking you out too?

China is probably fucking giddy right now with this distraction cropping up.
 
I thought Israeli tanks were supposed to be good? Would an Abrams survive a bomb being dropped on them by a drone?
Possibly not - Tanks in general are vulnerable to being struck from above, especially by shaped charges. Its one of the reasons that Javelins are so effective as a weapon platform, they fly way up then down into the weaker upper armor.

If these Hamas guys are smart they'd burn down anything they capture but can't use. There's a video of some Palestinians throwing burning rags into humvee fuel tanks so at least a few of them are smart enough to realize they can rack up a lot of monetary damage doing so.
I think the average red blooded male is at risk of a rush of shit to the brain when he's given an honest to god working tank. You're gonna be looking for any excuse or possibility to keep it or use it in a fight.
 
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