The siege

Israel-Gaza live updates: Israel mobilizes a record 300,000 reservists; Gaza under ‘complete siege’

It should come as no surprise that Israel will want to occupy Gaza - it has to get its hostages back as soon as possible, and that will mean searching every basement and tunnel in that area.

The Israelis have plenty of experience with their people being taken hostage. A couple of past events come to mind ...

The Munich massacre ...

a terrorist attack carried out during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, by eight members of the Palestinian militant organization Black September, who infiltrated the Olympic Village, killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team, and took nine others hostage .... all of the hostages were killed ...

The Israelis spent years hunting down the people responsible.

The Entebbe raid ...

was a 1976 Israeli counter-terrorist mission in Uganda. It was launched in response to the Palestinian-led hijacking of an international civilian passenger flight (an Airbus A300) operated by Air France between the cities of Tel Aviv and Paris ...

In that 1976 operation, Benjamin Netanyahu's brother was killed.

Hamas knew all of this when they kidnapped more than 100 Israeli women, children, and elderly citizens.