Fighting To Resume

Unless something drastic happens Hamas will be seeing a vastly different level of attack when the ceasefire falls apart as we read in a report from the Jewish News Syndicate:

Jerusalem is planning to resume the war in Gaza in four to six weeks in a decisive campaign to wipe out Hamas, The Washington Free Beacon reported on Friday.

According to these plans, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) intends to end the war rather quickly once they start:

The plan is to conquer the entire Gaza Strip in one fell swoop with more than 50,000 soldiers, relocating the civilian population to humanitarian zones, and waging a “ruthless ground campaign” in terrorist-heavy areas that will receive no humanitarian aid, the report suggests.

The campaign would tackle all of Gaza at one time as opposed to the area by area approach that was the strategy when the IDF began their offensive:

The campaign is to commence with heavy aerial bombardments, followed by a reduction of the humanitarian aid entering the Strip. Israel Defense Forces divisions would simultaneously enter the Strip in the north, center and south, carving it into three parts.

Prime Minister Netanyahu requested that the offensive be on his desk by this coming Thursday:

Citing several current and former Israeli officials with knowledge of the matter, the news outlet reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz instructed incoming IDF Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. (res.) Eyal Zamir to develop the plan, which is projected for completion when he steps into office on Thursday.

Once it starts, Israel expects the war to end in half a year, mainly because they won’t hold back and will attack every area of Gaza:

The general estimates that the war will end in six months or less, per the report.

Brig. Gen. (res.) Amir Avivi, founder of the Israel Defense and Security Forum (IDSF), is quoted as saying that the war this time “is going to be decisive. Israel will use every tool it has to conquer Gaza and eradicate Hamas.”

Col. (res.) Hezi Nehama, who during the war publicly endorsed the Generals’ Plan, calling for the blockade of northern Gaza, said, according to the report, “We’re going to see four to five divisions simultaneously attack in the north, in the center and in the south, to occupy every area and clear out the enemy. It will look different than what we saw in the war until now.”

Starving Hamas

Another key strategy is cutting off resources for Hamas:

Professor Kobi Michael, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) at Tel Aviv University, said that outside the humanitarian zones, no external aid will enter Gaza. “This will prevent Hamas from continuing to steal all the humanitarian aid and will increase pressure on the group through the local population,” he said.

Hamas will be given a way to stop the fighting, but I highly doubt they’ll do it:

The war could be paused if the Hamas leadership agrees to free hostages, or if it agrees to disarm and go into exile, the report adds.

Fifty-nine abductees remain captive in Gaza, at least 35 of them are believed to have died.

Hamas says they are ready to fight again but Israel has also had time to prepare with ceasefires in Hezbollah and in Gaza:

With Hamas also reportedly preparing for the resumption of the war, the IDF has raised its alert level around the Palestinian enclave.

Nehama said that Hezbollah’s weakened position in Lebanon permits Israel to shift many of its forces southward to deal with Hamas.

“We always had divisions in the north, and now we don’t need divisions in the north because Hezbollah is not a threat. So we can take those divisions and put them all in Gaza at the same time, and this is very important,” he said.

The incoming Chief of Staff wants to be more aggressive than his predecessor:

According to Nehama, Zamir rejected the latest plan formulated by outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi as too timid.

“The next chief of staff didn’t like what he heard,” Nehama relayed. “He told the prime minister and the defense minister that he would present them with another plan, much more aggressive and decisive with many more troops involved.”

Add to this that the Trump administration, unlike the previous administration isn’t going to get in the way of Israel when fighting starts again:

With the Trump administration apparently giving Jerusalem a blank check in its dealings with Hamas, the combat in Gaza, if resumed, is expected to be waged with less restraint on the part of Israel.

The one of the costs of getting the hostages back in the first phase is that to pull off what we’ve just discussed is they have to evacuate the Gazans they agreed to let come back into the north of the strip. I’m sure Hamas did that since they knew that Israel wouldn’t just roll them indiscriminately to avoid civilian casualties. The 4-6 weeks would include the relocations. But once it’s settled that no more hostage deals remain Iran and all of it’s proxies will likely not wait to try and take out Israel by marshalling all the forces they still have and do as previous armies in the past have done and launch an all out assault on Israel. But they are also going to face the same Israel that is protected by the God of the universe and will also face the same defeat as those previous attackers. I know you may be getting tired of me telling you this, but what I just described is what is prophesied in the Psalm 83 war which I still hold is the next war involving Israel. Time will tell if I’m right, but I certainly can’t see Iran and its proxies just sitting back and waiting until Hamas is soundly defeated after all their assurances that they are in this together. They are reading the same reports I am and I assure you they are preparing even as we speak to not let it happen.