Also, the measures concluded in the end of the document are about ensuring this was a motivational speech for soldiers that are going to fight Hamas terrorists, not a vague statement.
If not, I don't see him making that distinction, by stating to block all food from entering Gaza and dropping all restraints for attacking Hamas.
I did not had he impression there ever were restraints when dealing with Hamas. So restraints were always for bystanders. Which were dropped.
1 Samuel 15:3 was always the official policy; they are no longer pretending otherwise because they don't have to. Nobody's going to stop them and for anyone that tries, there's the Samson Option.
A more-fun line of questioning that outs the demons among us is asking what someone would do if they had access to a time machine. One particular demographic will consistently and proudly tell you they'd use it to go back in time and murder one specific infant. Not teenager, not young adult--given free range of choice they always opt to kill their opponent at their most helpless, as an infant that cannot fight back--which says all it needs to.
"On 9 October 2023, Mr Yoav Gallant, Defence Minister of Israel, announced that he had ordered a “complete siege” of Gaza City and that there would be “no electricity, no food, no fuel” and that “everything [was] closed”. On the following day, Minister Gallant stated, speaking to Israeli troops on the Gaza border: “I have released all restraints . . . You saw what we are fighting against. We are fighting human animals. This is the ISIS of Gaza. This is what we are fighting against . . . Gaza won’t return to what it was before. There will be no Hamas. We will eliminate everything. If it doesn’t take one day, it will take a week, it will take weeks or even months, we will reach all places.”