Israel / Palestine

My opinion here is that yes, Israel is going for the long-term here... they'll force the population South and thin them out, and fear is a powerful weapon to get people moving so whether or not they targeted the hospital or not is irrelevant as it creates more fear on the ground.

Israel will shrink the size of Gaza by first declaring an increased no go area inside Gaza as "to protect our people against being taken hostage we need to create a buffer zone", and then once the land is empty Israel will increase building on that land, the expansion of settlements.

They have done this repeatedly for decades, it is nothing new. But areas like Gaza are so densely populated that they've never been able to succeed with this strategy there. Netanyahu's funding of Hamas to force this situation has created an opportunity for a massive land-grab (relative to their past progress on Gaza), and so they will take as much of that land as possible whilst the window of opportunity is open for them.

The Israeli government and right wing do not care about the human suffering, they do not value non-Jewish lives, so long as progress towards a one-state Israel and the end of Palestine is achieved.

This is all but a single step towards that, it doesn't need to achieve everything this time around, as the past created many opportunities, and the future will create more. So long as every opportunity is taken, and they always take as much land as they can and never give it back, it's progressing the right direction and is worth it in their opinion.

They certainly do not care what the international community think, so long as evangelical Christians in the USA who believe in end time prophecy keep supporting this madness.