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Broadly, I think that this has been Israel's goal since the start, and that it was apparent when they bombed the al-Ahli hospital (and denied responsibility, only later to recant).

From the start, they intended to kill as many Palestinians as possible - hundreds of thousands if not millions - and since they predicted that not even their legions of morally bankrupt international defenders could protect them from condrmnation if they did it through mass executions, they instead systematically snd deliberately set sbout destroying infrastructure and hospitals, stopping aid by driving out existing aid distribution organizations and taking over and closing all border crossings, and herding the population into the smallest possible space so that starvation and disease would do the bulk of the killing for them.

They are, right now, doing exactly what they planned on doing from the start, and toward the goal toward which they've been deliberately working from the start - the complete destruction of the Palestinian people and the full annexation of Gaza.

And in fact, I have zero doubt that that's why they've recently walked away from negotiations - because Hamas, entirely justifiably, will not back down from their demand that any deal must include Israel's withdrawal from Gaza, and they have, and have had since day one, no intention of ever withdrawing.