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[–] partial_accumen 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Evacuate to where?!

About 100,000 people are being directed to head for an "expanded humanitarian area" in Khan Younis and al-Mawasi.

Future headline: Khan Younis and al-Mawasi bombed today resulting in the deaths of hundreds

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Seriously. Would you trust the Israeli government to tell you where to be if you were a Palestinian at this point? You’d have to be suicidal to trust them.

[–] FlyingSquid 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They'll limit it to killing everyone who didn't evacuate that part of Rafah. For now.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Naw, they'll wait until everyone evacuates, and then bomb wherever they evacuated to

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

You're right, it'll be both; it's not like they need to conserve ammunition, America will always send them more

[–] pivot_root 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[–] RozhkiNozhki 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can someone please ELI5 why they think that HAMAS won't just "evacuate" with the rest of these people? What's the point of destroying a chunk of the city that was abandoned? I understand that they are destroying the "infrastructure", tunnels etc. but not terrorists? Am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Other than destroying the infrastructure as you mentioned, in an evacuation/refugee scenario it's possible to identify individuals and check them against available intelligence.

Israeli intelligence has had a lot of time to at the very least identify Hamas's chain of command. While the odd low-level fighter might slip through, any leader would get nabbed before they made it into a refugee camp.

[–] taanegl 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why is this downvoted? This is 100% correct.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Because people around here don't like hearing that there's a strategically valid, logistically viable method for clearing out the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza while minimizing civilian casualties.

Apparently nobody noticed that the moment the IDF started evacuating civilians and moving in Hamas is suddenly open to accepting terms. What I outlined is the thing they fear most: their leadership on the ground getting grabbed.