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Destruction in Gaza City
(Ha'aretz) Anshel Pfeffer - Sector by sector in northern Gaza, dozens of IDF combat teams are going from house to house, searching and destroying tunnel shafts and weapons stores. They're taking no risks. As nearly all of the population who lived in the area have now fled south, this means that any building suspected of harboring weapons or tunnel entrances is bombed or bulldozed. Soon, the issue of trying to avoid more civilian casualties will no longer exist because all those who can will have left. Wide swaths of Gaza City and its surroundings have already been destroyed. One reason why this has not yet been fully noticed is because Hamas doesn't want its own constituency, the Palestinian people and the wider Arab world, to see what they have lost due to the folly of launching such a vicious attack on Israel. Israel is on the cusp of doing what it said it would: destroy Hamas' military capabilities. Since, in the 16 years it has ruled over Gaza, Hamas spread its military infrastructure above and below ground throughout the civilian fabric of the city until they were inseparable, there was no other way but to destroy Gaza City. Soon the saga around Al-Shifa Hospital will be over and the implications of what has happened will finally sink in.