They're perfectly capable of glassing the place in about five minutes. Death toll: everybody. But what they're trying to do is weed out Hamas, who hide behind civilians, while causing as few civilian losses as possible.

If Hamas really were a small local force in a constrained area, and not a dispersed force operating throughout the entire area, then yes of course the fight would have been over months ago.

Just tells you how fierce and how hard it is to deal with Hammas and what they are doing in Gaza