Israeli security officials are signaling that the situation in Gaza may soon reach a breaking point. Kan 11 News reported Friday night that members of the Security Cabinet left a recent briefing convinced that Hamas’s accelerating military revival will eventually demand a forceful Israeli response.
The update came during a Cabinet session on Thursday, where defense officials laid out an extensive assessment of current realities in the Gaza Strip. Ministers were shown intelligence indicating that Hamas is both expanding its military capacities and consolidating political control. According to the report, the presentations also made clear that Hamas has shown no readiness to surrender its arsenal or scale back its operational capabilities.
One senior Israeli official put the dilemma starkly, telling Kan 11 News, “If the Americans do not succeed in bringing about Hamas’s disarmament, we will have the credit to do it ourselves.”
The briefing also addressed developments to Israel’s north. Defense personnel shared updated intelligence on Hezbollah’s intensifying military posture inside Lebanon. The ministers were told that Beirut’s leadership—already struggling to exert control—has proven unable to uphold its commitments under the ceasefire framework.
Israel, meanwhile, continues focusing its military pressure on Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon. However, it has avoided targeting Beirut itself, a restraint being exercised at Washington’s request.
Cabinet members quoted in the report acknowledged that the northern arena is trending in the same direction as Gaza, with some warning that the situation there, too, may eventually require what they described as “surgical treatment.”
{Matzav.com}
The Gaza strip is tiny. It shouldn’t take Israel more than a few hours to wipe them off the map.