During a media briefing with Israeli reporters earlier this month, a senior Israeli military officer appeared to offer a glimpse of clarity to Israel’s ultimate intentions in Gaza. Brig. Gen. Itzik Cohen confided that Israeli forces were nearing the complete removal of Palestinian civilians from the north of Gaza, where the more than year-long war against Hamas militants has lately intensified. The officer reportedly told the journalists that no further humanitarian aid would be allowed to regularly enter the north of the Strip...