The IDF will be spread too thin to maintain the intensity of occupations in the West Bank and growing conflict along international borders
Their rapidly crumbling international support will take a massive hit from the brutality of such an assault and could prompt direct retaliation from Hezbollah
Many, many IDF soldiers will get fucking obliterated entering hyper dense urban combat against a million people with nothing left to lose

These three combine to create the likelihood that Israel would be utterly defeated in such an action. The IDF is a paper tiger when they aren't bombing an imprisoned civilian population.

Thoughts? Am I right or wrong with this take?

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[–] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

They intend for starvation and disease from drinking unsafe water to destroy the Gazan population, and the bombing campaign and slow ground invasion are meant to destroy communications and routes for supplies to enter while creating a smokescreen that obfuscates this strategy until after it's happened rather than do the bulk of the damage directly
They have a hope that sufficient terror bombing will eventually drive most of Gaza's population to flee to Egypt, making the invasion to destroy those that remain less costly