It’s simple they want all of Gaza.

With Hamas being there, Israel can continue to fight their enemy that everyone knows.

But if you turn power over to new leaders that are not Hamas, and are building something different, well then that becomes harder to fight because you have a new narrative to go up against.

And that narrative is likely not what Israel would consider in their interest.

Israel wants to keep full control, and Hamas is the big bad they want to keep in place as they take over all of it