IDF Maj. Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland’s list includes: No Gazans behind the Yellow Line, where the IDF will stay until Hamas is fully disarmed, and tough sanctions for every cease-fire violation.
One of Israel’s foremost national security experts outlined four necessary actions that will ensure the war in Gaza ends in a Hamas defeat, in a Walla article Monday.
IDF Maj. Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland wrote that Israel should have already evacuated all Gazans from behind the Yellow Line, to which the IDF withdrew 10 days ago upon Hamas’ agreement to the 20-point American peace plan.
“The number one principle of 21st-century wars,” he wrote, is that “military control of territory that contains a hostile population has more disadvantages than advantages. When there is a hostile population, there will always be terrorists among them, and when there are terrorists in close proximity and in high friction with our forces, there will also be many attempted attacks.”