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They are cutting through them like hot butter like anyone even semi-informed knew would happen, but it doesn't seem to prevent you from making idiotic predictions and observations again and again.

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Two senior Israeli commanders and seven other soldiers have been killed by Hamas in a complex ambush in the Gaza City suburb of Shejaiya, an area that has seen intense urban fighting in recent days.

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Among the dead, announced by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Wednesday, were another colonel, three majors and several members of a combat rescue force.

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Over several days, the Israeli Air Force has dropped seven tons of water supplies to IDF troops on the ground in Gaza using its special operations “Shimshon” C-130s.

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An officer of the IDF 98th Division’s Logistics Array alluded to the difficulty of resupplying IDF Commandos in Khan Yunis with water. The City’s location and heavy fighting therein makes resupply by surface means impractical at best.

The Israeli forces in Khan Yunis were cut off for a while. The Israelis had to send in a relief column to reopen their supply line. Khan Yunis is only four miles from Israel.

Overall, Hamas’s lack of anti tank weapons is limiting their ability to stop the Israelis. On the other side, while the Israelis have killed a lot of ordinary people, they don’t appear to have inflicted serious casualties on Hamas, and Hamas has maintained the same tempo of attacks. They’ve said they will not negotiate a settlement and the return of the remaining hostages until Israel withdraws. And while the IDF has surrounded and cut off the urban areas in northern Gaza, they’ve cleared only small portions of them. The heavy fighting is yet to happen. The IDF is also showing its limitations. 20% of the deaths they’ve taken so far are due to friendly fire.

Hezbollah has not committed to war as this point, and so the worst case scenarios haven’t materialized, but Israel could still pull the trigger.

This post was edited on 12/17/23 at 12:26 pm