Baladia, village ranges near Gaza, where Israel trains for ground operations

Baladia is a small Arab village 30 miles [30 km] from Gaza.

There is the mosque, the market, a larger building, a square, dozens of small houses built along narrow alleys.

Baladia is not a real village, is an Israeli fighting range “urbane”, part of the large Tze elim base.

They built it in the mid - 2000s, a request from the General Staff determined by battle experiences.

And over time, the first nucleus became a very realistic compound, with the creation of tunnels.

A necessary addition to the obstacles faced in the conflict with Lebanese Hezbollah and Hamas themselves, but also with Fatah's groups in Yen, West Coast.

Each faction has used the territory to its advantage - complex neighborhoods, with houses creating mazes and blind corners.

The complex, also built with American funds, is equipped with sensors and cameras to monitor the movement, while an audio system reproduces explosions, songs and “ting”.

Total cost: $45m.

Simulations include the invasion of individual houses that have become stations.

Units use video combat dogs, small fears, teams of engineers to open gaps in walls and avoid exposure to narrow roads, <x0).

The men of the Brigades al Qasssam could target them from a thousand points, throwing bombs from a roof, coming out of a camouflaged tunnel, sweeping through the ruins of a destroyed building.

They analysed previous operations, carried out countermass, equipped with antitanks, and other fears capable of throwing bombs into an armoured vehicle.

In a piece of Tze elem they have modified four-way vehicles, they have a kind of French equipped with a “top” on the roof.

They serve to recognize the tanks' directors, who will have to guarantee fire cover, even if their movements are limited by <x0-geography features”.

The most useful are giant armoured bodozers D9R, even in the radio-controlled version, armed with machine guns, protected by subx0).

But they have fewer chances of being targeted by modern systems.

The armoured Bulldozers are tasked with opening paths, removing barricades, or creating them to stop kamikaze vehicles.

Every Israeli maneuver in recent years has seen them on the front line. No matter how precise the courses are, the unknown for any such action remains.

Analysts, experts, allies, former head of the Mossad Efraim Halev have suggested that the government give up a massive <x0-earth intervention “which would include an area that would still be populated despite the use of some of the residents.

The consequences are obvious: the loss among civilians the number continues to rise following the Gaza Hospital massacre and among soldiers.

In fact, the military seemed to hold back for the moment, talking about other options without elaborating.