The long-term goal of the campaign against Hamas is to sever all links with Gaza, Israel's defence minister says.

By Henri Astier BBC News

Israel has suggested that the long-term aim of its military campaign in Gaza is to sever all links with the territory.

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said that once Hamas had been defeated, Israel would end its “responsibility for life in the Gaza Strip”.

Before the conflict, Israel supplied Gaza with most of its energy needs and monitored imports into the territory.

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  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    You can’t run a de facto siege against the territory, a total isolation of it, and claim you’re being peaceful. That’s an act of war. The Gaza territory simply doesn’t have a military to fight that war.

    So import and export blockades, does not make a hands-off independent state.

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/blockade-warfare

    • mwguy@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      14·
      8 months ago

      Which came after Hamas took over the territory and committed itself to eliminating every Jew in the region.

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        4·
        8 months ago

        You can’t have it both ways. You can’t say they’re at peace, but they’re also at war. You have to choose

        • mwguy@infosec.pubOPEnglish
          21·
          8 months ago

          Since the pullout there have been a series of conflicts and ceasefire between Hamas in Gaza and Israel. So over that time they have been at peace and at war.