>>Ah, forget it. Just remembered the geography. What deep forests, what swamps?
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>Oh, you were trying to make a joke, I see.

Looks like a joke now, but my intent was for you to remember that.

Pretty much anywhere else on the planet, a guerrilla either has bases in mountains, forests, swamps and other hard-to-reach places, or it blends in the general populace. Not that I'm comparing their reasons for existence, but my ancestors were fighting the Ottoman empire from the forests, taking winter breaks among the people who would hide them until next spring. The partisans (Italian, Yugoslav, Greek and several others) were mostly in forests but also operated within cities. They had all sorts of undercover people.

Somehow it doesn't seem feasible for most of the Palestinian forces to be out of towns. They don't have the logistics to dig deep in the open - and even if they did, they'd be seen from the air. Their only way is to stay where they live anyway. The Israeli claim that they wouldn't be hitting civilians if the fighters weren't mixed with them has only some merit - the flip side of it is "we'd like you to get in the open where we can just sweep you" combined with "we are sorry but we'll keep on hitting your houses, and if your women and children die we'll be sorry again".

Not that I condone their tactics. Suicide bombing is the most insane form of warfare I ever heard of - specially when it targets random civilians, including their own. That's not even brave, that's just plain insane, and harms their cause. Another dirty tactical move is using women and children as shield. It might have worked in Kosovo, when they had all the world's media on their side and just police on the other, but I don't know whether they'll gain any sympathy doing that in Palestine and Israel.