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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  • Fleur__@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1514·
    1 year ago

    Israel: loses control of its colony Israel: “didn’t want it anyway”

    • mwguy@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      3011·
      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
        1·
        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
          1·
          1 year ago

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

          • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
            1·
            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