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Barak acknowledged that a ground invasion of Gaza would take weeks, perhaps even several months, after which he suggested control of Gaza should be gradually handed over to the Palestinian Authority.
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In the past, Israelis have morbidly likened intervening in Gaza to "mowing the grass", operations that are a periodic necessity. This time, it's different.
Meanwhile, the US Secretary of State has flown in to display support for Israel but also to negotiate a humanitarian corridor. But will that open a way out for desperate Palestinians? Gaza’s only other land border is with Egypt, which wants no part of a large influx of refugees.
England's Football Association (FA) has been condemned for its “weak response” to the Israel and Palestine conflict by a Jewish communal organisation.
As Israel mobilises and seals off the Gaza Strip, will it be the prelude to an incursion, an invasion, an occupation? For civilians on the Palestinian side, the nightmare is only at its beginning.
But the potential prospect of a ground offensive in one of the planet's most densely populated territories comes at a very high cost. How long a war? How many casualties? What endgame? If it's to eliminate Hamas, what should it be replaced with? Israel left Gaza in 2005. Does it want to return? Most pressing is the cost to a civilian population already running low on drinking water.
"If you want to look at sad statistics, apparently this (October 7) is the worst day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust," Lapid said.