Gaza Ground invasion inevitable, eventually.

 GAZA TO  BECOME TIGHTLY CONTROLLED

THIS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN AGAIN

While Israel continues to devastate any target that can be associated with Hamas, rockets still are being launched from Gaza. This will give Israel more targets as soon as these rockets are fired. Gaza has a very bleak long term future.

Israel will eventually launch a building by building ground assault to put an end to Hamas permanently.  This may not begin for several weeks as they will hope to minimize casualties by softening the resistance as much as possible before entering. Every building that offers resistance will be brought down by Israeli air power in minutes.

Hezbollah has warned that they will attack if Israel engages on the ground in Gaza, this also may be inevitable. Such an attack will not be on unarmed civilians without warning. It will be a very costly for Hezbollah and probably for Israel. Israel may now feel that it it time to also eliminate Hezbollah.

Obviously Hamas has learned a few things by watching the conflict in Ukraine. They have used drones and shoulder fired anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons, possibly placed on the black market by Ukraine. Weapons left in Afghanistan by departing U.S. military will likely be a source of weapons worldwide. They have learned about electronic jamming and disrupting communications. We now see that modern warfare is soon available to almost everyone.

I would expect that the seemingly endless supply of rockets are supplied by Iran, we will soon know the origin of all these weapons. While Iran may have not planned this attack, they have supplied these groups in the past. The present embargo, which has been obviously ineffective, will be severely enhanced.

The negotiations between Israel and Saudi Arabia are now on hold, but not cancelled. 

Hamas may have hoped to enlist the support from some major mid-east countries, but they may be very disappointed. In the big picture of global politics, Hamas may be just a thorn in their sides and they will complain but quietly let Israeli remove this thorn from their long term goals.

The situation in Gaza will never return to what it was before Oct. 7. 2023.