UKLFI Charitable Trust, April 7, 2024
This is a recording of a UKLFI Charitable Trust webinar recorded on 7 April 2024, with Major (ret) John Spencer, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point and chaired by Natasha Hausdorff.
Last October the Israeli government tasked the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) with destroying Hamas as a military and governing organisation in the Gaza Strip and rescuing over 250 hostages abducted from Israel.
Hamas was estimated to have around 40,000 fighters embedded in, around and underneath a population of over 2 million people, mostly in urban centres, in a strip of land 40km long and 10km wide.
Hamas controlled a network of more than 600km of tunnels, while flight of civilians out of the territory was barred.
This webinar discusses the extraordinary military and legal challenges that have faced the IDF in this theatre and its response to them.
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