5 observations from the ground in Gaza by a former British Army officer

By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Friday, August 01, 2025

2. Hamas' rigging of tunnels with explosive devices has led to 'absolute devastation' in Gaza 

Fox told the "Triggernometry" co-hosts that he saw "absolute devastation" in Gaza. He spoke in particular about the destruction of the city of Rafah. 

Recalling how Hamas "moved people out" of Rafah "so they could booby trap all the houses" with improvised explosive devices, Fox described how the terrorist organization put IEDs into 57,000 "tunnel shafts" that lead into houses and put cameras in the tunnels so they could detonate the devices as soon as Israeli Defense Forces entered them. This led to mass casualties among the IDF, prompting them to change their strategy. 

Fox detailed the new strategy: "They now send a drone into the building first. If there's nothing found by the drone, they send in a dog and then, only then, do they send in troops but even then, only in four-man teams rather than platoons or sections."

The purpose of the strategy, he contended, is to "try and minimize the casualties if anything does go bang." When IDF members find IEDs, they cannot engage in the traditional methods used to disarm bombs because of time constraints so they have "quite legitimately just leveled the buildings that are IEDed."