It looks like that after a lot of Ho-Ho, the Israeli march into Gaza is stalled. My guess is that Israelis are scarred of ambush in a massively built, urbanized Gaza which is 40X10km strip. The tunnels deep underneath make any attack next to very difficult. Exact location of entrance and exit of the tunnels is unknown. These are 30 to 50 feet underground. Before walking into the unknown, Israelis have to figure out what is doable and what is not. Blind march could lead into huge casualties and another victory for Hamas.
‘’All the residents have not left Gaza where tunnels are located. These are deep in urban areas where penetrating bunker buster bombs will result in huge civilian casualties. That is not good for an attacking force. In addition nobody knows where the hostages are?
No sir, the outside force of US is not helping one bit. They are also afraid of bad image if too many civil causalities result. In addition some hostages will die. Hence, no way out of this tricky situation.
If HAMAS is not beaten into non existence, then it will be victory for them. There operation was masterly planned.