I have read about this technology that Israel has several times before.  It seems that Israel has a "star wars" type of invisible shield around their tanks that protects them from anti-tank missiles and other fire.  It is somewhat similar to Star Trek's Enterprise's shields.  If Hamas is unable to disable this shield, the Israeli tanks can roll unimpeded right into the Hamas command and control bunkers.  It is amazing how God always gives Israel the advantage, in this case allowing them to invent this technology!  

Iran supplies Hamas, and Iran pulls the strings on Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.  Unlike Hamas which only had 10,000 missiles at the start of this conflict, Hezbollah has at least 60,000 missiles aimed at Israel.  Will Iran sometime in the coming days or weeks unleash Hezbollah?  We will wait and see.  If so, this could easily escalate from that point and involve many other participants.  Remember that Russia is an ally of Iran, and the situation in Ukraine is most tense!  It would not take too much between Iran and her proxies and Russia to move to the "sudden destruction" / Rapture event.  We are over 66 years into the End Times from Israel's return as a nation in 1948, and make no mistake about it, the End Times will indeed "wrap up" ultimately with the "sudden destruction" / Rapture event and then the 7 year Tribulation Period leading to the Second Coming of Israel's long rejected Messiah (Jesus).

Neil

In reference to the following article, I find this interesting:

Hebrew Meaning:
The name Rafael is a Hebrew baby name. In Hebrew the meaning of the name Rafael is: God has healed.

http://www.debka.com/article/24124/A-%E2%80%9Chumanitarian%E2%80%9D-ceasefire-would-give-Hamas-time-to-find-answers-for-Israeli-Chariot-4%E2%80%99s-Windbreaker-armor

A “humanitarian” ceasefire would give Hamas time to find answers for Israeli Chariot-4’s Windbreaker armor

Thursday, July 24, the 17th day of the IDF’s Gaza operation, Israeli ministers were discussing a possible “humanitarian ceasefire” in IDF-Hamas hostilities, which could last up to five days. According to debkafile's military sources, it is Hamas which, behind its tough stance, is keen on a pause – and not just out of sudden concern for Gaza’s civilians. Its tacticians are desperate to find a chink in the Chariot-4 tank’s Armored Shield Protection-Active Trophy missile defense system, known as the Windbreaker. The 401st armored brigade is the only IDF unit with this armor.

Hamas has tried to stop these tanks with two kinds of advanced guided anti-tank missiles, the Russian Kornet-E, and the 9M113 Konkurs. But Windbreaker repels them and blows them all up.
Wednesday July 23 the IDF deliberately placed brigade commander Col. Sa'ar Tzur, one of the outstanding commanders in Operation Protective Edge, before TV cameras, while standing in front of a Chariot-4 tank.

He spoke at length about the brigade’s unstoppable performance under anti-tank missile fire. Those missiles are blown up without penetrating the tanks’ armor, he said, and are powerless to slow their advance.

Hamas has found no answer for the Active Trophy defense system, any more than it has for the Iron Dome anti-missile defense batteries, which keep Israeli civilian populations safe from its rockets. Both systems are home-made, developed by Rafael advanced armed systems industries.
Hamas is not giving up, which is why it is holding out against a long ceasefire, but aiming for just enough time to come up with new stratagems, debkafile's military sources say.
This was the message conveyed in the statement Hamas leader Khaled Meshal made Wednesday July 23 in Qatar: He rejected a long-term ceasefire, but left the door open for a "humanitarian" pause.
While its forces have taken serious punishment, most of Hamas’ underground command and military infrastructure is still far from knocked out. But if the Israeli military decides to go for a decisive coup against those core facilities – defined by the Israeli security cabinet’s euphemism of "expanding the operation” - Hamas chiefs expect it to be spearheaded by a fleet of Chariot-4 tanks hurtling towards them behind the protection of their impenetrable “Windbreakers.”

To maintain any kind of draw with the IDF, Hamas stands in urgent need of two resources: 1) Technology for neutralizing the Windbreaker; and 2) Missiles able to pierce it.
While Khaled Meshal haggles with ceasefire brokers in Qatar, his agents are known to have appealed urgently to Tehran to find the weapons they need and deliver them at top speed to the Gaza Strip – possibly from Libya by the Iranian-terrorists’ arms smuggling route through Egypt.
A reference to this appeal was made in a comment by a senior military intelligence official Wednesday, when he disclosed that Iran had promised to rebuild Hamas' military machine, including its rocket production and launch systems. Hamas and Tehran also broached the problem of the Chariot-4 armor. Both fully understood that unless it can be solved, Hamas may have no way of defending its high command and arsenal in their elaborately furnished underground bunkers.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has all these facts to hand, fed by a steady stream of intelligence from US informants in and over the battlefield. His efforts for a ceasefire are based on his perception that Israel has so far not managed to inflict a clear defeat on Hamas and needs to expand its operation to tip the scales.

He calculates that if Israel launches its final thrust, which has not yet been approved, it will not accept a ceasefire before achieving its goal, and this may take at least a week to ten days.

But if  Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon hold off on Israel’s decisive attack, then negotiations can start for a truce of some kind, while both sides size up their respective situations and decide whether or not it is to their advantage.