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Israel aims to cut Gaza ties after Hamas defeat

www.bbc.com /news/world-middle-east-67175094

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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Okay, so surely that will also involve removing the maritime blockade and giving Gazans responsibility for the land border with Egypt, RIGHT?
Though even if it did, I would tend to think that the flip side would be increased settlement and repression in the West Bank.
- If there is no Hamas in power, why would they have continued blockade?
  
  Tell me this, place yourself in the shoes of an average Gazan at the age of 18. With all the destruction, violence, and oppression you've witnessed, would you not become a "terrorist" against your oppressor? There won't be an end to Hamas without an end of the abysmal material conditions and violence. Hamas was literally funded and legitimized by Israel to manufacture consent for their ethnic clensing campaign.
  They will continue to blockade as long as Palestinians exist, I gaurentee it.
  
  Why indeed
- I believe they have responsibility for the border with Egypt now.
Half the population are children, most of whom will dedicate their life to a blood feud.
- lol the kids in Palestine already dedicate their life to blood feud.
  this whole situation is sad, and cannot be summed up on an internet post.
  this ancient blood feud will continue long after you and I are converted to fossil fuels
  
  Ethnic cleansing is bad and a nation descended from Holocaust survivors should know better. Unfortunately that nation is ruled by a far right government intent on finishing the job their grandparents started in 1948.
  Here in the US, our ancestors shot their foreign occupying soldiers over a lot less, and rightfully so.
Trump: "If I lose, you'll never see me again."
Israel: "If we get rid of Hamas, we won't have to blockade Gaza anymore."
[x] Doubt
- Read the article. It sounds like they want to be off the hook for providing necessary infrastructure and services to Gaza and other occupied territories.
  
  Why shouldn't they be?
They stole all the resources and then they make it look like they're doing a favor to give something back. Shameful.
- Thats so British
  
  I'm British and this made me sadlaugh
That's.. not bad?
- It's disengenuous. People complain about Gaza not having enough of its own water or electricity infrastructure and relying on Israel, but up until now Israel has required Gaza to get their permission on any new construction. So Israel have been holding Gaza hostage via water and now they're cutting them off and making excuses for it.
  
  It doesn't help when the government in the region digs up infrastructure to construct weapons with and makes hype videos about it.
  
  When the ruling party have publicly stated and action supported main goal in destruction of Jewish state, it is called security measure.
  
  Wouldn’t it be a better solution though inevitably? I know nothing about the region so please don’t take offense, just seems if Palestine was granted autonomy while it would be rocky at first being free to govern themselves would probably be good in the end right or am I missing a lot on the situation?
  
  So they give them water and electricity it is because they are holding them hostage. But they take it away and that is also bad. So they need to offer Schrodinger's utilities?
- Destroy people's homes, utilities, food, etc, then pulling out and saying "not my problem" while people die from lack of basic necessities and medical care as a result of Israel's destruction and Israel does a pikashocked face while continuing to do whatever they can to limit aid getting in still seems pretty bad. Like, better than stealing the Territory...
  
  It is a long term goal, not immediate goal. Having Palestine state (without Hamas) responsible for itself is a good thing.
  
  They'll steal the territory after they've starved out anyone who was able to resist it.
- Well it'll be a DMZ inside Gaza with a very hard border that nothing may cross so it will all be Egypt's problem.
Israel aims to cut Gaza out entirely: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-brandishes-map-of-israel-that-includes-west-bank-and-gaza-at-un-speech/
- Ya he's part of the party that wants to assimilate the West Bank and Gaza. The parties that wanted a two state solution have been out of power since their "prove it" move to establish peace in the Gaza Strip backfired.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said that once Hamas had been defeated, Israel would end its "responsibility for life in the Gaza Strip".
On Friday, Mr Gallant told a parliamentary committee that the first stage of the campaign was meant to destroy Hamas's infrastructure, according to a statement from his office.
The US and Egypt have reached a deal allowing some supplies to start bringing relief Gaza's 2.2 million residents.
An initial convoy of 20 trucks had been expected to enter southern Gaza through the Rafah border crossing on Friday, but they are still stuck on the Egyptian side.
Meanwhile Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has confirmed that he will join several world leaders at a summit in Cairo on Saturday aimed at achieving a ceasefire.
The event, hosted by Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, will involve talks on trying to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on a two-state solution.
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Israel: loses control of its colony Israel: "didn't want it anyway"
- 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.
  
  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

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