Seize Gaza, or make it uninhabitable. That’s Netanyahu’s plan – and either way he wins | Yair Wallach

If you have followed official Israeli rhetoric and actions in recent months, Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest plan will come as no surprise. The military offensive is expected to involve mass casualties, huge destruction, forced removal of population and an intensification of the humanitarian disaster. To launch an operation on the scale needed to occupy parts of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military would need the support of tens of thousands of reservists. With farmland destroyed by Israel, the population of 2.1 million is almost entirely dependent on food coming from the outside. It is determined to pursue an open-ended war of varying intensity, making the Gaza Strip increasingly uninhabitable.