Experts: Starving Gaza to displace its residents and subjugating Hamas through the Paris negotiations. The goal of starvation is to destroy the morale of Palestinian fighters and destroy the ability to fight.

Israel expects from this pressure - in light of the majority of its citizens’ support for the starvation policy and the war on Gaza - that Hamas will back down from its demands and be subjugated. The starvation war aims to pressure Hamas “because Washington wants the hostages, so that US President Joe Biden can brag about them to voters”