Ideally, they should capture every man of military age.
The IDF will have to be in all the schools and the mosques.
It's unlikely that the Israelis will be up for that.
So Hamas will rebuild and attack Israel again.
The IDF will have to be in all the schools and the mosques.
It’s unlikely that the Israelis will be up for that.
So Hamas will rebuild and attack Israel again.
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There’s middle ground where Israel would not try to micro-control the people but would require enough monitoring to limit any rebuild.
Israelis have as much appetite for occupying Gaza as we did for occupying Iraq.