Scale down ground campaign in Gaza within weeks: US to Israel

The Biden administration has told the Israeli government that it wants Israel to wrap up its large-scale ground campaign in the Gaza Strip around the end of the year and transition to a more targeted phase in its war against Hamas, four senior US officials said. As the Biden administration envisions, this new phase would involve the use of smaller groups of elite Israeli forces that would move in and out of population centres in Gaza, carrying out more precise missions to find and kill Hamas leaders, rescue hostages and destroy tunnels.