ARAB AND WORLD
Sun 18 Feb 2024 6:26 pm - Jerusalem Time
Israel is building a road to separate the northern Gaza Strip from the rest of its parts
The private Channel 14, which is close to supporters of the Israeli right, said on Saturday evening that the crossroad “794” begins from the area of the “Nahal Oz” settlement in the Gaza Strip, and extends westward into the Gaza Strip almost to the Mediterranean Sea, and it cuts the Gaza Strip’s ties.
It reported that dozens of machines, trucks, and engineering equipment, belonging to the Army Engineering Corps, are currently building stone factories and crushing them to build this road.
The commander of the “601” Battalion, affiliated with the Combat Engineering Corps, Lieutenant Colonel Shimon Orkabi, told the channel: “We are now within the scope of the Netzarim Road (a former Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip), which creates a barrier between the north of the Strip and the central and southern regions to protect the area and penetrate into areas where there is It contains the enemy, preventing movement between north and south and controlling it precisely.”
Israeli forces are destroying all the homes to the right and left of the new road, as shown in a video broadcast by the channel, whose correspondent said that this road indicates that the army is undoubtedly preparing to remain in Gaza for a long time.
Despite mounting regional and international warnings of potentially catastrophic repercussions, the Israeli army is preparing to invade Rafah, the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt, where there are at least 1.4 million Palestinians, including 1.3 million displaced persons whom Israel pushed from the north and center of the Gaza Strip to its south, claiming that “ Safe area.”
Since October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza that, as of Sunday, left “28,985 dead and 68,883 injured, most of them children and women,” in addition to thousands missing under the rubble, according to the Palestinian authorities.
For the first time since its establishment in 1948, Israel is being tried before the International Court of Justice, the highest judicial body in the United Nations on charges of committing “genocide” crimes against the Palestinians.
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Israel is building a road to separate the northern Gaza Strip from the rest of its parts