Israel pushing ahead with Rafah plan without a strategy: Report

Israel remains determined to push ahead with a plan to drive out more than 1.5 million displaced Palestinians from Rafah  - one of the last cities in Gaza to have been spared the worst of the Israeli rampage throughout the rest of the Strip. 

Bloomberg is reporting that Israeli officials have acknowledged in private they have no precise strategy for how to do it, how long it will take, or where the people in Rafah will go.

The report quoted former national security adviser Yaakov Amidror as saying Israeli forces would move into Rafah in March, and estimating that the fighting would last until the end of April.

“We can then move to a configuration of smaller forces like we have in the north,” Amidror was quoted as saying.