The Israeli military response was immediate and the government outlined a range of main objectives; the most immediate of these was to eliminate Hamas in Gaza entirely.
A year on, the Israeli military is still fighting in Gaza, suffering losses almost every day, while thousands of Palestinian civilians, including women and children, have been killed.
According to Israel, controlling the Philadelphi Corridor is crucial to suffocate Hamas by cutting off its supply lines of weaponry that come into Gaza via the Rafah border crossing.
The seizure of the corridor by the IDF sparked concern in the US and some European countries due to violations of the US-brokered 1978 Camp David Accords.
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