Endless War on Gaza

The report published by the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz yesterday reveals plans drawn up by the Israeli army, under the direction of the Netanyahu government, to displace the residents of northern Gaza and demolish their homes and level them to the ground in preparation for establishing new settlements on their ruins to expand the Gaza settlement envelope.

These plans indicate what awaits the sector in terms of successive Israeli campaigns to control it through the construction work carried out by the occupation army, and the transformation of the passages into wide streets, some of which extend to settlements established before 2005, in addition to the presence of military sites that appear to be fixed. An Israeli officer comments on this by saying that the army will not withdraw until the end of 2025.

This officer adds that as the area looks now, and what we see when we see the streets and axes they are paving here, this does not seem to be for a ground maneuver or an incursion into limited areas, but rather for greater matters and goals, which have not been clearly disclosed, but everyone understands where things are heading.

Despite the statements issued by some Israeli officials, the displacement of the residents of the northern Gaza Strip is not part of the generals’ plan, but what is happening on the ground is different. The displacement policy is ongoing, as about 20,000 people remain in the northern Gaza Strip out of half a million before the war began. The Israeli government is basing its plans on starving the citizens in order to displace them, and then seizing and demolishing their homes in order to continue the army and settlers’ residence there.

There are no longer any suitable homes in the northern Gaza Strip, as a result of a systematic policy by which the army is working to level buildings, some of which are still standing, and expel their residents, through an Israeli admission that shells are being fired near inhabited homes to create panic and fear with the aim of moving citizens south.

In parallel with these operations, aerial maps published yesterday show that Israel has divided the Strip into four parts: the north, Gaza, Deir al-Balah, the center, and finally Khan Yunis and Rafah, where the army plans to remain in the Netzarim, Kissufim, and Philadelphi axes, and along the Strip’s borders several kilometers deep, in order to continue the war of extermination and occupy the will of the Strip’s citizens.

Israel's war on the Gaza Strip is aimless, without a horizon, and its only concern is to continue the policy of killing and displacement, which will prolong this war for the longest period of time.