Israeli military launches attack on Gaza, Israeli media reports

[fujiyamasan]

49. The last thing I would do is defend Hamas or any such group that launches terrorist attacks and takes hostages

It would be odd for them at this point to launch attacks after returning hostages that were kept alive. It was their only bargaining chip. It was also the only thing restraining Netanyahu from making this situation even worse (if such a thing is possible).

As another poster said, it could be other groups attacking, or Israel launching more attacks on false pretexts, or any combination thereof. It’s impossible to understand the motivation of religious lunatics on either side. All I know is that after over two years since the 10/07 attacks, we have seen non stop devastation, death, destruction, starvation, and ethnic cleansing of the people of Gaza.

There are no military targets left in Gaza (or even civilian targets for that matter making more attacks, additional war crimes). Hamas basically admitted defeat by agreeing to the ceasefire, largely due to discontent among Gazans.