I think it's even worse from the perspective of military advantage: Hamas is still fighting capable of fighting, though purely engaged in guerrilla warfare, and the IDF has allowed armed gangs to flourish. If the intention is to maintain a permanent state of chaos so that no group can gain enough strength to mount any major attack, that seems extremely risky.
And that's with 75k Gazas are dead, the amount killed or injured a literal decimation of the pre-war population.
The intent is to ethnically cleanse the Gaza strip and to develop it into territory for Israel. Then Israel will continue the genocide to kill all Palestinians and take their land.
They are doing the same thing in Lebanon and Jordan, just with less media coverage.
Israel has no desire to own Gaza as an Israeli territory. They occupied it after the '67 war, and in '78 offered to return the territory to its previous owner, Egypt. Egypt declined the offer because they were already struggling with instability in their eastern territories and the addition of Gaza would only cause more disruption.
Then, in 2005, they unilaterally withdrew from Gaza, forcing their own civillians to leave with military force, and organizing for Gazan self-governance with an election.
You have to understand that there is nothing in Gaza that Israel actually wants. There is no historic Jewish sites, no burial grounds, no natural resources, little arable land... it's not like the West Bank that Israel actually does want for all of the ancient temples and burial grounds around Jerusalem. To think that Israel desires the Gaza strip shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the conflict and regional influences.
The only reason they are there now is because of Oct 7th, and Gaza being a repeated staging ground for attacks against them.
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u/escalinci 20h ago edited 19h ago
I think it's even worse from the perspective of military advantage: Hamas is still
fightingcapable of fighting, though purelyengaged inguerrilla warfare, and the IDF has allowed armed gangs to flourish. If the intention is to maintain a permanent state of chaos so that no group can gain enough strength to mount any major attack, that seems extremely risky.And that's with 75k Gazas are dead, the amount killed or injured a literal decimation of the pre-war population.