In the documentary film 1948, about the Nakba (posted here a week or two ago), a Hagana or Palmach veteran (idr which) described the Palestinians who resisted their expulsion as totally irregular and noted that they ‘weren’t even defending from trenches or anything’— they weren’t even using the basic, temporary fortifications that were a feature of modern warfare at the time.
What a total reversal! Today Israel struggles— with its (in)famously expensive, high-tech, ‘futuristic’ army— to penetrate the resistance’s network of underground tunnels.