{"id":17127,"date":"2025-04-03T18:01:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/israel-shifts-goal-posts-in-gaza-war\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:01:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:01:52","slug":"israel-shifts-goal-posts-in-gaza-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/israel-shifts-goal-posts-in-gaza-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Shifts Goal Posts in Gaza War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israel\u2019s leaders have articulated various goals for the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/israel-attack-gaza-hamas.html\" title=\"\">expanding war in Gaza<\/a>, spreading confusion over how the objectives might be achieved and on what terms the renewed campaign might end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The primary aim is to squeeze Hamas into releasing the dozens of remaining hostages in Gaza. But other goals have emerged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had \u201cmoved up a gear\u201d in Gaza, capturing more territory, hitting militants and carving up the enclave. He reiterated his ultimate goals of crushing Hamas\u2019s military capabilities and terminating its rule over Gaza, neither of which have been achieved in more than a year of war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The defense minister, Israel Katz, said a day earlier that the military was seizing more territory to protect its forces and border towns, suggesting the possibility of a longer-term presence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And over the weekend, Mr. Netanyahu said Israel would enable what he described as the voluntary emigration of Gazans, without clarifying where they would go.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If all of these different objectives have created uncertainty about what is to come, that may be intentional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The military chief, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, said on Wednesday that Israel would \u201cpreserve operational ambiguity and the element of surprise\u201d during a field visit to Gaza. \u201cThe only thing that can halt our advance is the release of our hostages!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israeli forces appear to be gradually dissecting the enclave into separate districts, in part to encircle and restrict the movement of Hamas fighters who have regrouped in different areas, according to analysts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But as the military attacks areas of Gaza that it had already conquered multiple times before, as well as some new ones, questions remain about what the forces can do this time that they couldn\u2019t do in more than 15 months of fighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe government has not yet presented a viable diplomatic framework that will translate the military achievements into realizing the war objectives over time and justify the prices paid for them,\u201d said Assaf Orion, a retired Israeli brigadier general who is now a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israel\u2019s ambiguity about its endgame in Gaza could also serve to satisfy the far-right members of Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s coalition and buttress his grip on power by leaving open an option of fully occupying the enclave and, eventually, building new Jewish settlements there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It is also unclear how the campaign will help the remaining hostages who were taken in the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which ignited the war. Hamas is insisting on negotiations as the only way to free them, demanding a full Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza and a permanent end to the war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israel has conditioned any end of the war on the disarmament of Hamas and its leaders leaving Gaza, terms the group has refused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Former hostages have testified that their conditions in captivity only worsened as Israeli military pressure increased and that they feared being killed at any moment by their captors or Israeli bombardment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To a large extent, Mr. Orion said of Israel\u2019s renewed offensive, \u201cit is a development that endangers the lives of the remaining hostages.\u201d On Wednesday, a group representing the families of hostages said they were \u201chorrified\u201d to wake up to Mr. Katz\u2019s announcement about the expansion of military operations in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israel broke a two-month cease-fire with Hamas on March 18 after talks to extend the truce stalled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the weeks since, Israeli troops have retaken most of the Netzarim Corridor, a route dividing the northern and southern halves of Gaza. On Wednesday, Mr. Netanyahu said Israeli forces were seizing another east-west corridor in southern Gaza.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The military has recently thickened parts of a buffer zone inside Gaza\u2019s perimeter, and it has expanded ground raids in the northern and southern ends of the enclave along with <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/31\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-israel-rafah-evacuation-order.html?searchResultPosition=32\" title=\"\">issuing sweeping evacuation orders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Thursday, the military issued more evacuation warnings for residents of neighborhoods in eastern Gaza City ahead of operations there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That has led to the displacement of more than 140,000 people in Gaza since the cease-fire broke down, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/resources\/reports\/unrwa-situation-report-165-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-jerusalem\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according to the United Nations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">More than 1,000 people in Gaza have been killed since the cease-fire collapsed, according to the Gaza health ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. The ministry said Thursday that the bodies of 97 people who had died had arrived at hospitals in Gaza in the previous day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The ministry also said that the bodies of 27 people that is said had been killed in an Israeli strike on a school turned shelter in Gaza City had arrived at a hospital. The ministry does not differentiate between civilians and combatants in its casualty counts and the circumstances were not clear.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Israeli military said it was looking into the reports and could not immediately comment. It has in the past accused Hamas of embedding itself among the civilian population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In another tactic aimed at pressuring Hamas, Israel halted the entry of all commercial goods and humanitarian aid into Gaza a month ago, leading to price gouging by local merchants and shortages. The World Food Program, a U.N. agency, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WFP\/status\/1907131156463825096\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> this week it had run out of the flour and fuel needed to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/02\/world\/middleeast\/un-aid-gaza-world-food-program.html#:~:text=The%20bakeries%20used%20as%20much,they%20ran%20out%20of%20supplies.\" title=\"\">keep bakeries in Gaza open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Gaza health officials say that more than 50,000 people have been killed in the enclave in the war prompted by the Hamas-led attack on Israel that killed about 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials, and in which 250 were taken to Gaza as hostages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israel believes up to 24 living hostages are being held in Gaza along with the remains of about 35 others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Adam Rasgon<!-- --> 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