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For eleven days Hamas, aided by Iran and other terror groups tried to paralyze central and southern Israel by firing thousands of rockets from Gaza. Now, strategists are looking for other potential threats and an Israeli expert points to the north as a much bigger threat.
Prof. Boaz Ganor, the executive director of the International Institute for Counter Terrorism, told CBN News his main concern after the Israel/Hamas conflict. I have to admit that as an Israeli, this is not the only front that I m concerned of. I look north and I see Lebanon and I see Hezbollah, he explained.
Hamas s exact troop strength is unknown, but various estimates have put armed manpower at around 30,000 militants if you include non-core personnel who could be mobilised in an emergency.
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The force includes a marine commando unit and an elite unit trained to raid Israel from underground tunnels.
The actual troop numbers are somewhat irrelevant in non-conventional warfare, said Dr Shaul Shay, senior research fellow at the International Institute for Counter Terrorism and a former IDF officer and deputy head of Israel s National Security Council. We have to take in consideration that we are talking about asymmetric warfare, he says. The question is not how many soldiers or combatants Hamas has compared to a conventional force doing a ground manoeuvre into the Gaza Strip, because the two sides are completely different.