They're going to level the city. One hopes.
More realistically, they are demanding an evacuation of the city so that ground troops will be free to hunt for weapons (which will mostly be taken with Hamas fleeing the city) and secret tunnels and bunkers (which will be left behind, of course).
And when they encounter resistance in the form of snipers and terrorist booby-traps, they will call the troops back and just detonate whole blocks with explosives.
And Andrea Mitchell will cry.
But it's time to Decolonize Gaza. It's time to decolonize the living shit out of it.
Ed Morrissey, quoting from the paywalled WSJ:
Israel's military asked civilians in Gaza to move to the southern part of the enclave, signaling a widening offensive and prompting the United Nations to warn of devastating humanitarian consequences.
Israel's military, just before midnight local time, told the U.N. that its staff and approximately 1.1 million civilians should leave the northern part of the Gaza Strip in the next 24 hours, according to spokesmen for the U.N. and Israel's military. ...
"Evacuate south for your own safety and the safety of your families and distance yourself from Hamas terrorists who are using you as human shields," the Israeli military told civilians in Gaza, according to a spokesman.
As everyone is pointing out, Israel will only have days to conduct its defensive operations before the world, including the Iranian operatives inside the Biden White House, demand that Israel stop defending itself. Even the Heroic Neocon Drunken Cokehead Princeling George Bush only gave Israel 32 days to defend itself during the Hezbollah invasion in 2007.
Biden's Iranian Handlers will not be so generous.
Don't buy into Joe Biden's "pro"-Israel statement -- that was made to give Israel useless rhetorical support now so that he can demand that they retreat and end the "cycle of violence" later. Probably in as few as ten days.
So Israel must act swiftly and decisively.
There's also the matter of the 150 hostages that Hamas claims they have but I do not believe they will be rescued. They are certainly all dispersed throughout Gaza in different terrorist hideouts and will be executed one by one as Israel conducts its defensive operations.
Both of these are big news if true. This guy doesn't cite, so I have to go hunting for confirmation. I will try to do so.
@sentdefender
The Israeli Air Force is currently conducting Heavy Airstrikes against Hamas Positions in Western and Central Israel.
@sentdefender
The United States has reportedly given the "Green Light" to Israel for them to conduct any Operation which they deem Necessary in order to Confront any Threat, on any Front, in any Geography.
Posted by: Joe Mannix