Tel Aviv [Israel], January 14 (ANI/TPS): Without fanfare, the Israel Defense Forces is transitioning from phase 2 in the war against Hamas–the high-intensity stage of surging ground forces throughout Gaza–to phase 3, involving far more targeted operations, with a focus on the south of the strip. The decision to do so is based primarily on the IDF’s assessment that it has succeeded in dismantling Hamas’s organized military structures in northern Gaza and in Hamas’s former heartland of Gaza City, leaving disorganized terror cells that have fallen back on independent guerrilla warfare tactics. …