Everyone is gonna return to the north guys, we’re just building a few roads and and a buffer zone. And a few settlements Actually can you move Gaza back a bit you’re close to the settlements. Don’t fight back that’s terrorism and Genocide thanks.
new resort?
Of course. And Israel has already said that they need a one kilometer “security zone” between Israel and Gaza, and that they’re not going to put the security zone on [current] Israeli territory.
Gaza’s border with Israel is about 32 miles long. The amount of land taken for the demilitarized zone would be about 20 square miles. Gaza is about 6 miles wide; aside from the incredible disruption the “security road” will cause to Palestinian life, a demilitarized zone on either side of that road would be another land grab of about 6 square miles, meaning Israel is planning to steal (yet another) 26 square miles of Palestinian land. Considering that Gaza is only 141 square miles in the first place, they’re planning on taking 18% of all Gazan land.
Israel itself is 8,550 square miles, and the demilitarized zone would be less than one-third of one percent of Israeli land, and the Israelis say they want it to feel “safe”, so once again all the benefit is to Israel and all the detriment to Gaza.
As a final note, you know they’re going to “hold up” [deny] traffic between the halves, just like they’re holding up [denying] humanitarian aid trucks. Israel has also said that they expect the international community to do the rebuilding of Gaza, and that they won’t allow shipments into Gaza from Israel. That means that everything going into Gaza will either be from Egypt’s land border, or from a port. But it means that there will likely need to be two entirely separate supply lines, which will make logistics, humanitarian aid, and rebuilding supplies significantly more complex.
Which is the whole point, of course. Israel wants the Gazans miserable enough to leave voluntarily, and they certainly don’t care how many die to make that happen -either way, they “win”. And when some part of Gaza hasn’t been rebuilt within a given amount of time, when Palestinians haven’t been able to set up support and supply lines to every corner of Gaza (because Israel is deliberately kneecapping then), well then, Israel will have yet another excuse to justify taking even more “unused land” that doesn’t belong to them.
Fuck Israel.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The IDF told CNN it had destroyed part of a “tunnel network” beneath the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, which it claimed was “connecting the north and south of the Gaza Strip.”
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said in February that the IDF’s reported destruction of residential buildings and other civilian structures elsewhere in the Gaza Strip, within a kilometer of the Israel-Gaza fence to create a buffer zone, could amount to a war crime.
Emily Harding, director of the Intelligence, National Security, and Technology Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, told CNN that the Netzarim Corridor is an attempt “to control population movement.”
Harding said Israel’s biggest challenge since they started the operation in Gaza is to try to root out Hamas militants hiding amongst a civilian population: “The only way you do that is with really good tactical on the ground intelligence, and then preventing them from actually moving around.”
During a Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation from 2000 to 2005, known as the Second Intifada, the so-called “Netzarim junction” was closed off entirely, Jamal Al-Rozzi, a teacher from Gaza City, told CNN.
During this period, Israel tightened its “internal closure” policies, mostly for the security of settlements, according to a 2004 Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, leaving only one route between the northern and southern halves of the Gaza Strip.
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Divide and conquer
