The Israeli military said Friday night local time that its “ground forces are expanding” their operations in Gaza.
Now that you kicked out joirnalists and cut internet it’s finally time to indulge in those sweet sweet war crimes Israel?
I hate all of the violence and have no idea what can be done to stop or prevent it.
This isn’t a major step off IMO. Just a mini incursion.
I don’t think so. I think it’s begun. One of the defense ministers stated that "tonight we are starting payback"in an interview.
Not saying that’s false, just saying this bloated government of malicious morons talk a big talk and have less control over things. Netanyahu choose incompetent ass lickers and often makes decisions without them.
Seems to me to be a less complex attack than you need when you have half a million troops staged.
Edit to add: however Rivet Joint SIGINT flights are up, so it’s major no matter how you cut it.
This is a major operation, but it’s not the big one. That’s the point. It’s showing an escalating sequence of incursions.-
The intent is to fully show off the military capabilities. It’s performative war to serve as a deterrence against Iran, who are perceived to be the longtime rival. Israel has many countries who purchase military systems from them, and this is basically a major marketing event as well.
The immediate goals for this war are to rescue the hostages and eradicate Hamas as an organization. At a minimum, the senior leadership will be killed. Israel believes the senior leadership are in the tunnel system under Shifa hospital, but I suspect this operation is a raid on one of the tunnel systems closer to the border. Tunnel systems are a hard nut to crack. It’s too easy to defend them, so it’s a matter of cutting off escape routes and ventilation and forcing them to come out. Any alternative is simply terrifying - water, chemical weapons, or actually going down and fighting room to room with booby traps and worse.
