Israel was judged guilty of bombing a Gaza hospital before the evidence was in

In their compelling new book, “Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to Ukraine,” retired Gen. David Petraeus and historian Andrew Roberts write: “There are currently five widely recognized dominions of warfare — land, sea, air, cyber and space — but it appears that a sixth should be added, namely information, which is more important now than ever before.” Indeed it is, and nothing better illustrates their point than the current Israel-Hamas war — and in particular, the controversy over the explosion at a hospital in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.

There have been many stories in recent days on the difficulties that the Israel Defense Forces will encounter in mounting a ground assault into the dense urban terrain of the Gaza Strip — and those difficulties are considerable, given that Hamas is holding at least 199 hostages and has built an extensive network of tunnels where its fighters can hide. But this conflict is more likely to be decided in the realm of information warfare than urban warfare.