Said terrorists will just melt into the general population and walk out with them, and then return with them and repeat the next cycle.

> From a logical perspective, ignoring all of the politics possible, there is a clear best solution

Any solution that "ignores all of the politics" is not a solution at all.

> evacuate the innocent people from Gaza

Evacuation and forced migration look awfully similar, and the latter is genocide. And how do you determine who is innocent?

> free and de-militarized

Not impossible, but extremely hard. Especially when their rival is heavily militarized. Is there any example in history of this besides Japan?

> Clearly a war began when one or more terrorist groups physically based in Gaza invaded Israel

That was but a skirmish, they've been "at war" since the 1960s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gaza#Israeli_contro...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun

Huh? How would you accomplish this? Why wouldn’t the terrorists hide amongst the non-terrorists? Where would you take the non-terrorists? What about people who are terrorist-supporting non-terrorists, aren’t they a source of potential issues?