In Gaza, Israel will likely lean further towards population displacement and military occupation as a long-term strategic solution to the territory's security dilemma, but election timelines, domestic pressure and logistical problems will hamper this strategy and may even reverse it. On April 1, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would conduct new military operations in Gaza with the intent to occupy significant new portions of the Strip, where fighting between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas has recently resumed. Since the collapse of the ceasefire in mid-March, Israeli combat operations have resurged in Gaza, as Israel tries to pressure Hamas to release the remaining 59 hostages and lay down their arms as part of an agreement that would precede the militants' ultimate exit from the Strip. According to the Associated Press, the IDF now occupies half of the Gaza Strip, including areas in...
