For A Defence Minister He Seems To Have Very Little Concept Of What He's Talking About.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-801284

You can't just click your fingers and create a civilian and governance infrastructure overnight. So a period of Israeli occupation in which gradually smaller battles are fought in the same areas was always inevitable.

Ultimately it is the responsibility to the Palestinians and their allies to produce that infrastructure. It is him and others contributing to this notion that Israel can be forced to surrender and allow Hamas to re-emerge which is convincing they Palestinians and their allies that they don't need to get serious about planning for the post-Hamas era.