The slightly greater context of my quote:
A “bunch of casualties” hasn’t quite reached the hundreds of thousands yet, not even adding in the multiple tens of thousands attributed to starvation … but it is in the ballpark. And so far Hamas not destroyed. I think getting in that range is still likely given current policies, mostly by induced malnutrition and disease.
And it is not established yet that reoccupation will eliminate Hamas either, or at least not without creating another resistance that has the same ends and methods, the same need for revenge.