Gan Pampols warns of the humanitarian drama that comes in the operation in Gaza: "It will be very difficult to find the hostages alive"

Israel's land military incursion into the Gaza Strip to recover the more than 150 hostages taken by Hamas last Saturday will cause a real humanitarian drama for both sides, as Francisco Gan Pampols, Lieutenant General of the Israeli Army, warned this Saturday. Land already removed.

In an interview on TVE's Channel 24 Hours, Gan Pampols revealed some details about this ground offensive by the Israeli Army. “It is likely to be costly in time, in lives and, above all, in infrastructure.”. It is not a typical operation,” he stated in this regard.

As this lieutenant general explained, “there is no localized adversary, there is no continuous front, there are no units that are going to confront each other, but it is going to be a completely irregular war in which all types of weapons will be used.” systems, weapons, improvised devices, tunnels, abundance of explosive traps and mines and snipers,” he listed.

For this reason, “we will initially see many ground and air fire actions, because Israel is going to try to minimize the possible casualties that this action will cause, because sooner or later we have to get out of the armored vehicles and we have to start acting foot, this is going to be a house-by-house, room-by-room operation.

Regarding the Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas who are hidden in the Gaza Strip, Gan Pampols has said that “they are the most valuable bargaining chip that Hamas has”, so “it is going to be very difficult, not to mention say impossible, find them and be able to rescue them alive.

The lieutenant general of the Army has also referred to the surprise attack by Hamas on Israel, and the possible influence of Iran in the conflict. According to Gan Pampols, Hamas managed to attack on this scale “through deception, making Israel believe that it was not an adversary to be considered.”

“As for sophistication, the ability to maintain secrecy…. Hamas does not have it on its own, another country must have provided it,” Gan Pampols continues before pointing out the rapprochement that Iran has had with Hamas after the Syrian conflict.. Therefore, “it is very likely that Iran had something to do with it,” he stated.