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December 30, 2025

Israel Can Gradually Dismantle Hamas in Gaza, Without Resuming Full-Scale War

The most likely outcome.

Examining the current stalemate in the Gaza Strip, Eran Lerman delineates four options for Israel, among them allowing the status quo to remain, attempting to restore civilian life in the IDF-controlled part of Gaza, and a return to war in which Israel would try to remove Hamas from the territory it still controls. Much depends on what Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump agreed to yesterday. But Lerman finds a fourth option the most likely, in which 

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