Gaza: creating a free-fire zone

Israel has enough global support after the massacres that it can do pretty much anything to the Palestinians in Gaza for the next week or so, but then the sympathy and the patience will run out.

An Israel Defence Forces (IDF) tank. The IDF intends is to create a 'free-fire zone' in the northern third of the Gaza Strip where its soldiers can use maximum firepower without killing large numbers of civilians, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph via Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

October 13, 2023

LONDON, U.K.—Armies never tell you what their strategy is, but if you look at the problems they are faced with, you can usually figure it out.

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