Is Israel’s Gaza Pause Just a Delay?

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00:00Israel's military pause has been much welcomed internationally, but from your view, how meaningful is this strategically?

00:07Well, in terms of military thinking, you have to check the ultimate goal, the initial intention, identify tasks,

00:16and then you can question exactly how meaningful it is to decide on a pause on a daily basis between certain hours.

00:24Well, I see that there is no change regarding the goals because the goal is to evacuate Gaza and West Bank.

00:31And what I see that they are just playing for time and there are some certain differences in terms of event time charts, though.

00:40It's very clear that Israel's goal is still the same.

00:44For instance, they had a negotiation with Syria and one minister of them claimed that if Syrians receive Palestinians,

00:52then there will be a normalization between Syria and Israel.

00:56That means they are playing for Palestinians' lives and they are negotiating just to evacuate it.

01:05So there is no change and pause is something to gain time and that's it.

01:09So there is no change and pause.

01:11While I'm