Hamas has huge leverage with the international community. Considering how densely packed Gaza is, how Israel is intent on cutting off water/supplies/electricity, there's no realistic ground invasion that won't incur a massive civilian death count, and with age demographics of the region, a huge portion of those deaths will be kids (or at least less than 18 years old)
Lol that leverage has amounted to jack shit.
Hamas has, so far:
1. The Arab states, who aren't doing anything outside of bitch and moan.
2. Iran, who won't get involved beyond agitating their proxies, lest they face US military humiliation again.
3. Hezbollah, who Israel has contained in Lebanon and have been not doing much of anything.
4. The UN, which Israel could not give less of a fuck about (and really, people should deep dive into the UNRWA and the sketchy shit they "teach" to Palestinians)
5. Arabs in Western countries and their socialist 'allies', who, for the most part, are politically useless.
Lol no ceasefire is coming to save Hamas, and Hamas leadership has already cried about the lack of more support from Hezbollah and West Bank Palestinians, who both realize the Israelis aren't fucking around anymore.
But sure, Hamas has HUUUUUUUGE leverage. People have seen three weeks of Pallywood productions about the poor Gazans getting blown to shit. Most people who would give a damn about dead Gazans have already been won over. The longer the conflict goes on, the more people will grow numb to dead Gazans and just not give a shit.
The closest they could have got to a ceasefire was that hospital strike a week or two back, but once it was an Islamic Jihad rocket crashing into a parking lot, did most people realize the Palestinians are lying, and will continue to lie.
Evacuating 2 million people to prevent this is wholly unrealistic and will have a huge death toll of its own, not even considering the IDF's tendency to strike the safe passage routes.
Lol are you talking about the car bomb that went off along the highway going south?
Israel did bomb a few places around the Rafah crossing, but not the crossing itself. As if Israel is aware of smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border (which is also something Egypt knows about, considering their military operated fish farms in Egyptian Rafah).
