Fourteen days after the incessant Israeli bombings about Loopwho this Friday took out tens of thousands of protesters in the muslim world asking to stop “genocide” against the Palestinian populationthe government of Binyamin Natanyahu has aired for the first time its plans for the offensive ongoing and the framework it aspires to impose when the violence stops. The Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallanthas announced that the military campaign “to destroy Hamas” will be developed in three phases and will include the entry of his troops on the fringe. Its final objective includes the “creation of a new security regime in Gaza” and the “elimination of Israel’s responsibility for life in the Strip.” A goal that, today, seems like pure fantasy.
“October 7 is the day we begin to destroy Hamas,” Gallant assured the Defense and Foreign Affairs committees of the Israeli Parliament. His army is currently concentrating on bombing Gaza with missiles and tons of bombs dropped by aviationa first stage that will give way “to a tactical maneuver with the purpose of assassinating its operatives and damaging the infrastructure” used by the Islamist militia. By tactical maneuver we understand the anticipated ground invasion of the Stripwhich Israel has been preparing with the indiscriminate destruction of entire neighborhoods in the north and the capital of the enclave, as well as with the mobilization of 350,000 reservistswho have joined the 170,000 soldiers of its regular army.
In a second phase, with Israeli troops already inside Gaza, Gallant assured that the intensity of the fighting will reduce as his military quells the “bags of resistance” that remain in Gaza. Such a horizon anticipates a long war with many casualties on both sides because it will force the Israeli military to occupy the Strip, at least partially and until they have satisfied their objectives. As a final fireworks, “a new security framework in Gaza” would be created. and Israel will disclaim all responsibility for life in the Strip.
A bunch of bad options
Or what’s left of it. Because to date, a a quarter of their homes have been destroyed, according to the UN. More of 4,000 Palestinians have died — 70% of them children, women and the elderly, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health – and another 11,000 are injured. The humanitarian aid still blocked in egyptian border and the population has begun to drink recurrently healthy water from agricultural wells. “This increases exposure to pesticides and other chemicals, which puts the population in danger of death or outbreaks of infectious diseases,” one of the UN agencies said this Friday.
Gallant’s outline leaves more questions than answers and is not necessarily a reflection of what may be brewing in Netanyahu’s war cabinet. Not in vain, countries like Egypt, Jordan and Türkiyeas well as one’s own Palestinian National Authority (PNA) of the irrelevant Mahmoud Abbashave warned against all temptation to expel the Palestinians from Gaza to confine them in the Egyptian Sinaian old aspiration of the Zionist right also expressed a few days ago by Danny Ayalonwho was a minister and ambassador of Israel in the United States.
“We have not told Gazans to go to the beaches or drown, but to go to the Sinai desert. “There is a lot of territory, an almost infinite space in the desert, just on the other side of Gaza,” Ayalon said in an interview with Al Jazeera, shortly after Tel Aviv ordered more than a million residents of northern Gaza to leave. to the south. Ayalon added that it would be a temporary measure, but in light of the contempt with which Israel has treated the right of return of refugees Palestinians, backed by UN resolutions, no one has believed him.
Puppet regime in Gaza
In any case, the forced deportation of the population of Gaza would require the acquiescence of Egypt, which has categorically and repeatedly rejected any social engineering plan. So what did Gallant mean when he said that a new security framework will be created in Gaza without the involvement of the Jewish state? Does the Netanyahu Government plan eventually transfer power to the ANP and Fatah if he manages to decapitate Hamas? Leave the administration of the enclave in the hands of the UN, in the hands of a multinational force?
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“Gallant’s long-term plan is to impose on Gaza the same conditions as the West Bank Area Bwith a limited autonomy in terms of education, health and services, but under full control of Israel “in terms of security,” he assures this newspaper Menahem Klein, political scientist at Bar-Ilan University and key figure in the failed peace processes at the beginning of the millennium, when he was an advisor to Ehud Barak. “To do this they will try to find someone collaborationist to play the same role that Abbas is doing in the West Bank, where he has turned the ANP into a subcontracts the Israeli occupation”.
Klein believes, however, that the formula will not work. “After so many deaths and destruction in Gaza, the hatred towards Israel It’s going to be massive and the desire for revenge inexhaustible. “It’s not going to work,” says Klein. Another possible formula has been presented these days by the main forces of the settler movement, shock force ultranationalist and messianic that acts as an advance for colonization. They demand that Israel return to occupy Gaza indefinitely and divide the territory into three parts, separated by bblocks of Jewish settlements. But it is questionable whether it will progress. Since the Jewish State withdrew its settlers from the Strip in 2005, the appetite among the population to reoccupy it has been minimal. In its place, a still-current regime of extraterritorial occupation, in which Israel controls Gaza’s borders and air and sea space without a military presence within its territory.