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April 8, 2025

What’s Israel’s Strategy in Gaza?

Fighting both to destroy Hamas and to release the hostages.

Three weeks have passed since Israel resumed the fighting in Gaza. In addition to aerial assaults, the IDF has sent ground troops back into the Philadelphi and Netzarim corridors (between Gaza and Egypt and between northern and central Gaza, respectively), and established another east-west line, the Morag axis, between Khan Yunis and Rafah in the south. Thus it has effectively cut the Strip in three. Yet, notes Gershon Hacohen, it has not yet begun “a decisive push into the heart of Gaza City or the central refugee camps.” Hacohen tries to explain “the measured, incremental logic” behind these operations, which constitute

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April 8, 2025

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