Comment by ristlane
2 years ago
If Hamas were entrenched under an Israeli school or hospital, the civilians would vacate the area so the IDF could take care of it.
In Gaza, Hamas may be preventing civilians from leaving (but I’m not there to verify). It would help to have civilian corridors into the south and into Egypt, but again that’s not in the best interests of Hamas.
I’d like the IDF to do their best. They are indeed responsible for trying not to kill civilians. There’s only so much they can do, short of a so-called “ceasefire”.
> It would help to have civilian corridors into the south and into Egypt, but again that’s not in the best interests of Hamas.
Such a corridor is in nobodies interest but Israels, as they would happily expel the entire Gaza population and then forbid them from returning. It's not like high ranking Israeli officials haven't alluded or outright said this, and Israel has quite a history of illegal annexation in the West Bank.
Providing such a corridor would just be asssisting in ethnic cleansing.