You can swap out the entirety of what you wrote with Hamas and last week.

There is no point to any of this other than it keeps existing power structures entrenched. Hamas benefits from this because what the hell else do you do after Israel behaves like this. Netanyahu benefits because how the hell else do you respond after what Hamas has done?

The world's opinion was shifting on Palestine to the point it felt like the world was ready to start calling the apartheid state of Israel for what it has become. Then Hamas does the dumbest thing possible as ruins any kind of international condemnation of how Israel had been behaving for decades. But only dumb from the perspective of the Palestinian people. From the perspective of Hamas, any kind of international coalition in support of the Palestinian people would have zapped their power.

The same with Netanyahu. Both parties get power in the extended conflict, and can be considered to be aligned in incentives in that regard. Likewise, the Palestinian and Israeli people are also aligned in incentives. Neither wants the kinds of atrocities both sides are conducting.

It's time for the Israeli people to stand up and take accountability for how they'll e t let their government manage the last several decades of this conflict. They are a first world nation, incredibly wealthy, and are in a position of privilege that the Palestinians simply do not have. The solution will not come from leadership. It will come from the people standing up and demanding peace.

Fascism isn’t rational. It searches for enemies to expand power and control. In this case, Netanyahu isn’t popular and this gives him the chance to consolidate control.

Their ideal solution would be to kill every Palestinian and grind their buildings into dust.

International attention prevents them from doing so. Although far too many countries are far too chummy with Israel, they wouldn't be able to maintain that in the face of open genocide.

So instead they take what they can take. Bulldoze a few houses, execute a few people at the border, the usual stuff they get away with.

But Hamas handed them an excuse on a silver platter and there has never been a better time for them to get what they want. It's clear they've decided on at least half the city and any civilians who get in the way.

You are asking the wrong question. The question is "what are they losing from this" and the answer is nothing. They have committed war crimes for decades and not only is nobody turning away from them instead they get pumped full of even more and better weapons. Look at all the aid the west (mainly US) is sending them.

Why would they ever think about potential consequences if there are never any?

Maybe they want to scare people into not leaving the city, and then say they gave them the option but they didn't leave?

This. They bomb the "safe" routes so people don't feel safe trying to leave and just wait to be bombed(Just like Iraq vs US and Russia vs Ukraine) and The extremists in Israel believe that the Jewish people are owed the entire territory of King Solomon's empire. That territory, at minimum, includes parts of Jordan and Syria. At maximum it extends from the Nile to the Euphrates to the Persian Gulf and up into Turkey.

Palestine's existence to Israel is analogous to Ukraine's existence to Russia, except Russian sees Ukraine as "the same" people and Israel sees Palestinians as unrightful occupants that have no right to the lands of the Israeli people deeded to them by god according to scripture.

The Palestinian people will be removed persistently and then it is on to the Jordanians, and so on until the Israeli extremists have their "sacred lands of the chosen people". The extremists Israelis will make small "palatable" cuts until they achieve their goals.

It is a horrible situation for every innocent involved and this continuous and senseless death is absolutely worthless; all for the desires of corrupt and vile people believing nonsense.

Really good question. Are you implying it was Hamas doing this as a false flag?