Israeli officials said Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israel Defense Forces in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Hamas has not commented publicly on the reports.
Sinwar was the mastermind of the Oct. 7 terror attacks, which killed 1,200 people and set off Israel’s year-long war against Hamas in Gaza. Israel has made killing him a key objective, and may now be more willing to scale back its military operations in Gaza.
There’s so much more elsewhere, Israel has been developing offshore gas everywhere around there, and wouldn’t give a shit about Gazan claims anyway.
The west bank has Jerusalem and nice, arable land, some of the best in Palestine, they’re desperate for it.
They would much rather continue to slowly settle all of the west bank while leaving Gaza as a super-slum and proof that all of Palestine are Hamas.
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY wants Gaza, not Egypt (they were asked and said fuck no), not Israel, just nobody.
I’m not worried about Israel ever annexing Gaza, the most they might do is glass it when it gets inconvenient enough.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_gas_field - actually useful gas field.