Israel couldn’t even fully clear northern Gaza of fighters because it’s incredibly challenging to remove combatants entrenched in rubble, especially when they’re fighting for survival. They struggled to secure major settlements since, after carpet bombing parts of Gaza, Hamas and allied groups would reemerge from the debris to counter any mop-up operations with intense resistance.
It isn’t even the IDF shooting women and children its the airforce bombing them while the IDF starves them by preventing food from entering gaza.
Israel couldn’t even fully clear northern Gaza of fighters because it’s incredibly challenging to remove combatants entrenched in rubble, especially when they’re fighting for survival. They struggled to secure major settlements since, after carpet bombing parts of Gaza, Hamas and allied groups would reemerge from the debris to counter any mop-up operations with intense resistance.