As the IDF cleans up Gaza from the terror tunnels, and destroys the rocket launchers, it’s considering the next phase, which is the eradication of Hamas itself.

Meanwhile, the world is eagerly looking forward to the next round of financing of Gaza, with the US and Qatar already promising $47 million dollars in aid. Which is of course a bad investment, because if nothing radically changes on the ground, it’s only a matter of time, before the IDF will need to destroy everything again in the battle against Palestinian terrorism.

So what’s next?

There’s a stupid line that often repeated: Israel can’t get rid of Hamas (or Arafat, or the PA…), because whatever replaces it might be worse.

It’s a stupid line, because we have the option and the ability to decide what will replace Hamas. The question is, do we have the will to make it so.

What’s clear is that the IDF will have to stay in the Philadelphia Corridor that separates Gaza and Egypt.

The Palestinian Authority certainly can’t be trusted to guard the border, just as they can’t be and aren’t trusted in Judea and Samaria (just last week, a weapons shipment was caught as it was being transported across the Dead Sea).

It’s also clear that the IDF will need to stay inside Gaza too (whether we do or don’t is another question).

But as we are almost 9 year to the day that the Jewish residents of Gaza were expelled from their homes in the Disengagement, maybe it’s time to consider something else.

To me it is clear that it’s time to correct the evil done to our fellow citizens and to ourselves, and return to our homes in Gush Katif and Gaza.

To begin with, the US, the EU, Qatar and everyone else should be clearly told, don’t waste your money rebuilding Gaza.

Before the war, 70% of Gazans wanted to leave. I’m sure that percent is even higher now.

Use that international aid to relocate them. They want to leave. Help them in the way they actually want to be helped, not in a way that perpetuates the conflict.

Why throw more money into a bad solution that maintains the problem, when there is a clear solution, that all the parties want, that will end the conflict?

And secondly, once this war is over, the Jews should go down to Gaza and reclaim their homes and businesses they were brutally uprooted from in 2005.

The Gazans want to go, and the Jews want to go home. There is a peaceful solution.

How about trying something different for a change.

The IDF has set up a field hospital for injured and sick Gazans, at the Erez Junction along the Gaza border.

Hamas has of course told the Gazans to not go there.

This, by the way, is the same IDF field hospital that Hamas tried to hit with rockets a few days ago.

The IDF found yet another booby trapped house, next to a UN School.

The IDF announced the following IDF soldiers fell in combat since last night:

Staff Sgt. Amit Yeori, 20,
Staff Sgt. Avraham Grintzvaig, 21,
Staff Sgt. Gal Bason, 21
Lt. Roy Peles, 21.

The following soldiers fell in combat yesterday:

Staff Sgt. Guy Boyland, 21, a combat engineer from the 7th Armored Brigade was killed in combat last night.
Staff Sgt. Guy Levy, 21, from Kfar Vradim.

HY”D

Released for Publication:

1st Sgt. Yair Ashkenazi, Reserves, (36) HY”D, was killed this morning during operations in northern Gaza.

His family has been informed.

The funeral will be held today (Friday) at 4pm in the Rechovot military cemetery.

Since Operation Protective Edge began, 33 IDF soldiers have been killed.

11:10am Massive number of rocket alerts:

11:10am 07-25-2014 Herzliya, Raanana, Emek Hefer, Kfar Saba, Sharon / Gaash

11:09am 07-25-2014 Herzliya, Raanana, Emek Hefer, Kfar Saba, Sharon / Gaash, Ashkelon

11:09am 07-25-2014 Herzliya, Raanana, Ashkelon, Emek Hefer, Kfar Saba, Sharon / Gaash, Ashkelon

11:09am 07-25-2014 Herzliya, Raanana, Ashkelon, Emek Hefer, Kfar Saba, Sharon / Gaash, Zikim / Carmiya, Ashkelon

11:09am 07-25-2014 Herzliya, Raanana, Ashkelon, Emek Hefer, Kfar Saba, Sharon / Gaash, Zikim / Carmiya

11:09am 07-25-2014 Herzliya, Raanana, Emek Hefer, Kfar Saba, Sharon / Gaash, Zikim / Carmiya

11:09am 07-25-2014 Herzliya, Raanana, Emek Hefer, Kfar Saba, Sharon / Gaash

11:09am 07-25-2014 Herzliya, Raanana, Ashkelon, Emek Hefer, Kfar Saba, Sharon / Gaash

11:09am 07-25-2014 Herzliya, Raanana, Ashkelon, Emek Hefer, Kfar Saba, Sharon / Gaash, Ashkelon

11:09am 07-25-2014 Herzliya, Raanana, Ashkelon, Emek Hefer, Kfar Saba, Sharon / Gaash, Yad Mordechai / Netiv HaAsrah, Zikim / Carmiya, Ashkelon

11:08am 07-25-2014 Ashkelon, Yad Mordechai / Netiv HaAsrah, Zikim / Carmiya, Ashkelon

11:08am 07-25-2014 Yad Mordechai / Netiv HaAsrah, Zikim / Carmiya, Ashkelon

11:03am 07-25-2014 Ashkelon

11:03am 07-25-2014
Yad Mordechai / Netiv HaAsrah, Zikim / Carmiya, Zikim / Carmiya, Ashkelon

The IDF has released a list of senior Gazan terrorists from the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations, who have been taken out since Operation Protective Edge has begun, most of them in the past few day:

Salah Abu Hasnin – Propaganda minister and military leader in Islamic Jihad,

Hafez Mohammad Hamad – Islamic Jihad commander in Beit Hanoun,

Hussein Abd al-Qader Muheisin – Terror commander for Islamic Jihad in Shuja’iya,

Hassin Abad Alkadar Machisan – Shuja’iya terror commander for Islamic Jihad,

Akram Sha’ar – Terror commander for Islamic Jihad in Khan Younis,

Mahmoud Ziada – Terror commander for Islamic Jihad in Jabaliya, rocket commander,

Osama Alhaya – Terror commander for Hamas in Shuja’iya, he is the son of a senior Hamas political leader,

Muhammad Shaaban – A senior commander of Hamas’s naval forces,

Ahmed Sahmoud – Khan Younis terror commander.

Abdallah Alah’ras – Hamas terror commander.