Israel doesn’t really “hold” any territory in Gaza. They sent in big groups to set up a perimeter somewhere around a building, shoot anything that moves, take some pictures, then retreat back out. Every time they’ve tried establishing a long-term perimeter, they ended up getting ambushed from behind and mauled.
These headlines, so far at least, have been mostly cases of people misunderstanding how the war is prosecuted by Hamas and Israel.
Wasn’t there a similar headline about “Israel” being about to withdraw from Gaza just some months ago? And then it just didn’t happen?
Israel doesn’t really “hold” any territory in Gaza. They sent in big groups to set up a perimeter somewhere around a building, shoot anything that moves, take some pictures, then retreat back out. Every time they’ve tried establishing a long-term perimeter, they ended up getting ambushed from behind and mauled.
These headlines, so far at least, have been mostly cases of people misunderstanding how the war is prosecuted by Hamas and Israel.
The IDF was disheartened that their divide and conquer tactic not work, but they rather decided to just keep up the genocide.