The IDF expects the battle in Gaza against Hamas to last for about a year, Channel 12 reported on Friday.
According to the report, IDF senior officials are more focused on achieving results than ending the war and are not being pressured to hurry.
IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari announced on Motzei Shabbos that Hamas has lost control of the northern Gaza Strip and IDF troops are embarking on battles deeper in the Gaza Strip.
The final stage of the war will be to completely wipe out Hamas and prepare the Strip to be ruled by a new government. However, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Friday that the IDF will remain in the Gaza Strip to oversee security after the war ends.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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The Arab-Israeli War began in 1948 and never ended.
Conquering (what is left of) Gaza should be over within a few months, leaving Israel with a lot of rubble and homeless Gazans whom Israel is legally required to take care of, and certainly doesn’t want a hostile Islamic power to offer to take care (though there is also an opportunity to try something like dezanizfication in the context of occupation as the Americans did after World War II). Occupying it will take a large military for a longer period, and the Israeli economy may be in big trouble. If there is a surrender (or even a de facto cessation of Hamas activity), it would probably be best for Israel to agree to have the UN sponsor some sort of “Trusteeship” run by countries that Israel approves of, with those countries preventing remilitarization of Gaza, and perhaps ask that the US (along with NATO and the EU), give Israel some sort of insurance against terrorism (Lloyd’s would probably issue a policy, if the US, UK, and the EU were the “names” paying for the payments).
If the war spreads and involves major countries, it could last several years or in a worst case scenario, about an hour.
akuperma:
The Zionists should agree to have their paradise, as well, run by that same “trusteeship”, to finally end that Arab-Israeli war.