Israel says it will keep troops in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely. What does that mean?

By JOSEPH KRAUSS
The Israeli defense minister says his country’s troops will stay in “security zones” in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely, after Israel unilaterally expanded its frontiers in the war unleashed by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack.Israel says it needs to hold on to the zones to prevent similar attacks, but the takeovers appear to meet the dictionary definition of military occupation.
The acquisition of territory by force is universally seen as a vio