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

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      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.

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

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            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

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              Since the pullout there have been a series of conflicts and ceasefire between Hamas in Gaza and Israel. So over that time they have been at peace and at war.