The Obliteraton and capture of Gaza is required for the Ben Gurion Canal.
This project would take the pressure off the Straits of Hormuz choke point
The Ben Gurion Canal Project—a trade route through Palestine and Israel that could only be created by obliterating Gaza.
Declassified documents reveal that the US Department of Energy was planning to take extreme measures to make this canal possible. On July 1, 1963, a plan was outlined to create the Israeli Canal by detonating 520 underground nuclear explosions throughout the Negev Desert.
“Such a canal would be a strategically valuable alternate to the present Suez Canal and would probably contribute greatly to the economic development of the surrounding area,” the declassified document stated.
https://www.osti.gov/opennet/servlets/purl/453701.pdf
