I don't disagree with anything he has said. When he says "going into Rafah" I just hope that doesn't mean dropping bombs on a very densely populated area where they are have effectively corralled the population.
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“Going into Rafah is necessary and it’s the best option Israel has,” Yousef said, insisting that trying to eliminate Hamas leaders currently pinned down in Gaza’s southernmost city “from a distance” would only extend the war.
“We (must) go into Rafah and, first of all, rescue the hostages — they are in Rafah. Second, destroy the smuggling tunnels between Rafah and Egypt… then capture fleeing Hamas forces.”
Yousef believes that, once these three objectives are accomplished in Rafah, the people in Gaza will effectively be “free from Hamas.”
“Eradicating Hamas’s ideology is a different story; it will take lots of time,” he conceded but was nevertheless adamant that this shouldn’t preclude Israel from crushing what’s left of Hamas’s operational capabilities.
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To the bolded, I just hope Israel has not, through their callousness, created a culture that will perpetuate an even worse evil than Hamas. Cut off the head of the snake type situation and see what grows back. If you are a younger person in Palestine, and Israel just ripped through Gaza killing loved ones, won't that hatred be ingrained with you for life? It would be fairly easy to manipulate that into something dangerous even without Hamas at the helm.