 AP. Hi tech vs. Low tech in Jebilaya. Hacking war.
Israel is employing the best of its technology, but Palestinians are burning tires to avoid detection by drones, sending text messages on cell phones to head off eavesdropping and firing at troops with rockets assembled in garages. He said the army's new methods include keeping soldiers behind heavy armor and breaking through walls to move from house to house instead of entering through the front door. Massive armored bulldozers clear paths for the troops.
But Israel's main advantage is the real-time intelligence soldiers receive from drones and high-tech "spy balloons" hovering overhead.
In an address broadcast in mosques and over local radio, Nizar Rayan, a leader of the militant Islamic group Hamas, called on people to burn tires in the roads, hoping the dense pall of smoke would cloud the drones' vision. Rayan urged militants to keep changing positions every three minutes and not to communicate with cell phones, which Israel can track. Instead the militants, dressed in green military-style fatigues and black ski masks, use walkie-talkies and text messages to coordinate with each other. Colored headbands identify members of the different groups.
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