Israeli forces expected to change tactics once fighting resumes after Gaza truce • FRANCE 24

“I believe the type of military operation we have seen over the past weeks is going to change, essentially because the international community will not be as understanding regarding the large-scale bombing or displacement of populations,” Alexandre Vautravers, a security expert at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, tells FRANCE 24’s Nadia Massih. “We can be pretty sure that Israeli intelligence services have also been hard at work during the truce in order to track where the hostages come from (…) and therefore I believe there will be a new wave of targeted attacks,” he added. While Israel’s offensive has no doubt degraded Hamas’ military capabilities in the short term, Vautravers cautioned that, “in the mid- to long-term all that this massive attack has really achieved is to guarantee the recruitment of thousands if not tens of thousands of people to this combatant arm of Hamas.”