How is any of this making Israel more secure?

Israeli forces are massing for what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows will be an all-out assault on Rafah, the refugee-filled metropolis in southern Gaza, where the last intact Hamas battalions are said to be dug in. Meanwhile, however, fierce combat broke out this past weekend between Israeli troops and Hamas fighters in several places across northern Gaza — which Israel already pummeled, depopulated and theoretically pacified months ago.