Israeli leaders articulated different goals for Widening of war in gauzeThe spread of the confusion over how goals can be achieved and under what conditions the renewed campaign can end.

The primary goal is to suffocate the hamas in the release of dozens of remaining hostages in Gaza. But other goals also appeared.

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel “moved the gears” in Gaza, winning more territories, hitting militants and cutting the enclave. He reiterated his ultimate goals to the demolition of Hamas’ military skills and the abolition of his reign over Gaza, none of which was reached in more than a year of war.

Defense Minister, Israel Katz, said the day earlier that the army seized more territories to protect its forces and border cities, suggesting the possibility of a long -term presence.

And over the weekend, Mr. Netanyahu said that Israel would enable what he described as voluntary emigration of the Gazans, without explaining where he would go.

If all these different goals have created uncertainty about what is coming, it might be intentional.

Military Chief, Lieutenant Eyal Zamir, said on Wednesday that Israel “would” preserve operational ambiguity and surprise element “during the field visit to Gazi. “The only thing that can stop our progress is the edition of our hostages!”

Israeli forces seem to gradually dissect the enclave to separate districts, partly to surround themselves and limit the movement of Hamas fighters who were too gross in different areas, analysts claim.

But as the army attacks the Gaza areas that have repeatedly won several times, as well as some new ones, they remain questions about what forces can do this time that they could not do in more than 15 months of fighting.

“The Government has not yet introduced a sustainable diplomatic framework that will translate military achievements into the realization of war goals over time and justify the prices of paid for them,” said Assaf Orion, a retired Israeli Brigade General, who is now a senior colleague of the Washington Institute for the Middle East.

Israeli’s ambiguity of his ultimate game in Gaza could also serve to satisfy the ultimate right members of Mr. Netanyahu’s coalition and supporting his authority to power, leaving an open possibility to fully occupy the endlav and, at the end, the construction of new Jewish settlements.

It is also not clear that the campaign will help the remaining hostages taken in the attack on the Hamas on October 7, 2023, which launched the war. Hamas insists on negotiations as the only way to release them, demanding a complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza and the permanent end of the war.

Israel conditioned any end of the war on the disarming of Hamas and his leaders leaving Gaza, the conditions the group rejected.

Former hostages testified that their captivity conditions were worse only that Israeli military pressure increased and they were afraid that they were killed at all times by their abductors or Israeli bombing.

To a large extent, Mr. Orion told the renovated offensive of Israel, “It is a development that threatens the lives of the remaining hostages.” On Wednesday, a group representing the hostage family said they were “terrified” to wake up to the announcement of Mr. Katz about the spread of military operations in Gaza.

On March 18, Israel broke a two -month coast with Hamas after interviewing an extension of the tribute.

In weeks since the Israeli troops took over most of the Netzarim corridor, a route that shared the northern and southern half of the gauze. On Wednesday, Mr. Netanyahu said that the Israeli forces were seized by another East-west corridor in southern Gazi.

The army recently thickened parts of the buffer zone inside the gauze rim, and expanded the rush to the north and southern ends of the enclave together with Evacuation command.

On Thursday, the army issued more warnings about evacuation to the residents of the neighborhood in the city of East Gaza on the eve of the surgery there.

This has led to displacement of more than 140,000 people in Gaza since the break of fire broke down, According to the United Nations.

More than 1,000 people in Gaza have been killed since the fire interruption crashed, towards the Ministry of Health in Gaza, which does not distinguish civilians and fighters. On Thursday, the Ministry announced that the bodies of 97 people who died arrived at the Gaza Hospital in the previous day.

The ministry also said that the bodies of 27 people listed in Israeli strike at a school that turned into a refuge in the city of Gazi arrived at the hospital. The ministry is no different civilians and fighters in its numbers of victims, and the circumstances were not clear.

The Israeli army announced that he was looking at reports and could not comment immediately. In the past, he accused Hamas of being installed among the civilian population.

In a second tactic in pressure on Hamas, Israel stopped the entry of all commercial goods and humanitarian aid in Gaza a month ago, which led to the collection of prices by local traders and flaws. World Food Program, UN Agency, said This week has run out of flour and fuel Keep the bakery in the gauze open.

Health officials in Gaza say that more than 50,000 people were killed in the enclave in the war, which encouraged the attack guided by Hamas to Israel, who died about 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials and in which 250 were taken to Gaza as hostages.

Israel believes that up to 24 living hostages are held in Gaza, along with the remains of about 35 others.

Man Rasgon contribute to reporting.