Palestinian Hamas militants are seen during a military show in the Bani Suheila district on July 20, 2017 in Gaza City, Gaza.Chris McGrath/Getty ImagesIsrael appears to be preparing for a ground invasion of Gaza where it hopes to wipe out Hamas.But experts on peace and terrorism said a strictly militaristic approach is unlikely to create change."It is extremely rare for a terror group to be wiped out with violence," one expert said.Israel has declared a state of war and vowed to destroy Hamas after the Palestinian militant group executed a wave of unprecedented terror attacks throughout the country that killed more than 1,000.But if Israel takes a strictly militaristic approach to the most recent provocation in the decades-long conflict, it may end up inadvertently strengthening Hamas' power, three experts on terrorism and peace told Insider."It is extremely rare for a terror group to be wiped out with violence," said Alon Burstein, a visiting professor and Israel Institute Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine.Hamas is the Islamist militant group that governs the more than two million Palestinians who live in the Gaza Strip, a tiny sliver of land that is blockaded by Israel and Egypt.