My Opinion: The Wagner Group fighters may have participated in the 2023 Raid around Gaza in cooperation and conjunction with Hamas. This Raid (that’s what it is, in military terms), increasingly looks like the very carefully, professionally thought out, planned, and performed MILITARY OPERATION, on the par with the abilities and consistent with the stylistic patterns of the known actors, such as the Wagner Group and the GRU. If this line of thought is correct it opens a number of the conceptual geopolitical questions and issues.

Hamas fighters killed over 260 people at a music festival in Israel on Saturday, October 7. Le Monde has analyzed and verified the images shot on site to reconstruct this violent attack. The number of Hamas attackers and their weaponry quickly overwhelmed the event’s security and police forces. The festival participants killed represent almost a quarter of the victims of Hamas’s initial attack on Israel, including those taken hostage.

Thomas Eydoux, Arthur Carpentier, Juliette Prigent, Marceau Bretonnier(motion design), Mahé Richard-Schmidt(edit), Le Monde’s video desk and Sinead McCausland

Translation of an original article published in French on lemonde.fr; the publisher may only be liable for the French version.

The festival site – with three stages, a camping area and bar and food area – was in the Negev desert, near Kibbutz Re’im. It was not far from the Gaza Strip, from where Hamas fighters crossed over at dawn to launch their attack. They infiltrated towns and villages, taking dozens of people hostage.

U.S. Marines with S-2 intelligence prepare their equipment before launching a Backpackable … [+] Electronic Attack Module (BEAM) at an expanded range aboard the USS New Orleans (LPD 18) in the Coral Sea, July 25, 2021.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Daisha R. Ramirez

Electronic warfare has long been an exercise in combating adversaries with powerful equipment. In Gaza, thwarting tiny, low power drones and countermeasures will be key. 

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