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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  • mwguy@infosec.pubOPEnglish
    3816·
    1 year ago

    Gaza hasn’t been an Israeli colonization target since 2004 when they evicted every Jewish settler from the territory and re-established the 1967 borders in the name of peace.

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
      4·
      1 year 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
        13·
        1 year ago

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

        • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
          4·
          1 year 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
            2·
            1 year 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.