Define "clean out Gaza".
I suspect that they will have trouble with Gaza until they handle Gaza like the ancient Israelites handled the Canaanites.
....”I suspect that they will have trouble with Gaza until they handle Gaza like the ancient Israelites handled the Canaanites”.....
But that’s exactly why they’re having the problems they do....Israel was suppose to wipe them out ‘entirely’....instead they determined to hault destroying the Canaanites.... They’ve been a thorn in Israel’s side ever since.
The Gaza is where upwards of 12,000 rockets are stored and pointed toward Israel. Some are imported but most are home made and all represent a threat to Israel. Failure to do a house-to-house sweep and clean out everything that looks like a rocket, fuel, explosive, or the tools to build them has to be bonfired. The Israeli MO is to then destroy the place where they find the stuff.
The leadership of Hamas is hiding in Egypt so rounding them up is problematic but they can still round up everyone who lit a fuze. And that is what has to be done by way of “cleaning up gaza”. Anything less is halfassed and is no more than a live-fire exercise.