Actually, I chose the lowest MPH I could find on tank speed. I am not talking Gaza the City—look it up. Gaza the City is not 41 miles north to south. I am talking the distance from border to sea. Gaza as a whole is about two square miles more than Seattle, and about the same shape.
So what if they set up barricades etc? All within the day or so they fail to release the prisoners and the troops can re-enter? The point is to end the war at which point there is (checks notes) nothing to ambush or blow up with mines.
a) Gaza is a city, your math assumes it is flat ground. It is not. Finding passable routes for tanks is non-trivial, especially because
b) allowing Hamas fighters to re-occupy ground allows them to set up ambushes, barricades, mines, and other defenses.
Actually, I chose the lowest MPH I could find on tank speed. I am not talking Gaza the City—look it up. Gaza the City is not 41 miles north to south. I am talking the distance from border to sea. Gaza as a whole is about two square miles more than Seattle, and about the same shape.
So what if they set up barricades etc? All within the day or so they fail to release the prisoners and the troops can re-enter? The point is to end the war at which point there is (checks notes) nothing to ambush or blow up with mines.