Here AOAV presents an analysis of how Israel’s strategy of repeated “precision” military operations in Gaza produced short-term tactical successes but has failed to address long-term political instability leading, in the end, to strategic failure.

Israel’s blockade of Gaza has created a deliberate humanitarian catastrophe, with half a million people facing starvation, children dying from malnutrition, and aid agencies warning that this policy amounts to the use of famine as a weapon of war.