Conflicted Community: Andrew Fox – The Gaza Ceasefire Deal + Hamas’ Questionable Counting

Last week, a deal between Israel and Gaza was struck to bring back
the Israeli hostages and to bring an end to the bloodshed which has
engulfed Gaza over 15 months of fighting, since October 7th 2023.
It’s a deal which has brought relief to many, not least the
families of hostages and civilians in Gaza, but also questions from
others who see Israel as having failed to fully dismantle Hamas and
finish the war aims they began their assault on Gaza with. In this
episode, recorded last week on February 15th just as the deal was
being finally struck, we discuss the deal and give a broader
retrospective on the military campaign in Gaza in all its facets,
with a man who has been to Gaza and seen much of it first hand.
This week, Thomas invites Andrew Fox on to the Conflicted
Community. Andrew is an ex-soldier in the British army, who served
in three tours of Afghanistan, including one attached to the US
Army Special Forces. Since then he’s worked in academia as a senior
lecturer in the War Studies and Behavioural Science departments at
Sandhurst, as well as as a research fellow with the Henry Jackson
Society. He’s also a regular commentator on defence and foreign
policy across the media, including his excellent substack which you
can subscribe to here: https://mrandrewfox.substack.com/ 
Thomas and Andrew discuss the deal to bring a halt to fighting in
Gaza, as well as his time serving in the British army, how this has
affected the ways in which he looks at conflicts, before getting on
to a fascinating new report he co-authored which examines the
questionable counting of the Hamas run Gaza Health Ministry over
the course of the conflict. To listen to the full episode, you’ll
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