Border demonstrations solutions are coming

The scene of Palestinian workers at the entrance to the Beit Hanoun “Erez” crossing, waiting to be allowed to enter to work after 14 consecutive days of demonstrations on the border and fires that broke out due to incendiary balloons.

The Israeli army bombed resistance sites on the border and killed 7 Palestinians, to pressure the occupying state to lift the stifling siege and collective punishment that the occupying state has been practicing for many years and has affected all aspects of Palestinian life.

The policy of the occupying state towards the Gaza Strip and the pressure on the Palestinians and the Hamas movement, the ruling authority in the Strip, is the same policy that it uses against the authority in the West Bank by various means by stealing the clearance funds, weakening the authority and pressuring it to act as a security agent to maintain the security of the occupation and the settlers, and following a facilitation policy to facilitate... The lives of Palestinians are based on a trickle-down method, which is a criminal policy of collective punishment while continuing to deny the rights of Palestinians.

This Thursday morning, the occupying state announced the opening of the Beit Hanoun “Erez” crossing to workers after it had been closed since the Jewish New Year.

During the past two weeks, mediations to stop resistance activities on the eastern border of the Gaza Strip did not stop, and Egypt, Qatar, and the United Nations intervened and contacts were made with Hamas and the occupying state to end the current escalation and return to the situation that preceded the demonstrations on the border.

After the reopening of the Beit Hanoun “Erez” crossing, the continuing fact confirms that the occupying state is practicing a policy of siege and collective punishment, which are war crimes committed for decades against the Palestinians. Despite this policy and preventing workers from working inside Palestine, which the occupying state is following, it will affect the economy of the sector. Gaza. It is a policy that has not succeeded, and the claims that 18,500 workers or even 50,000 will work to improve people’s lives is not true. It may affect partial improvement because the conditions in the Gaza Strip are disastrous and people’s lives are unbearable. This policy is like one who gives painkillers and ointments to a person sick with a disease. It is dangerous and there is no cure. The imposed Israeli siege is not only related to increasing the number of workers, but rather it has affected the lifeblood and economic and social conditions of the besieged Palestinians, who are deprived of freedom of movement and travel, the right to work, and the search for new opportunities outside the walls of the besieged Strip.

Following the reopening of the Beit Hanoun crossing, the Israeli media and journalists continued to incite against the Palestinians and criticize the Israeli government and army for not directing strong strikes against the resistance. The news of indirect contacts between Israel and Hamas to calm the situation is discussed, and that if calm returns to the Gaza borders, Israel has expressed its willingness to provide additional facilities to the Gaza Strip, such as increasing the number of permits for Palestinian workers who will be able to work in Israel to twenty thousand instead of the current number. 18500.

During the past two weeks, Hamas movement was strongly criticized regarding the demonstrations and popular resistance actions that took place, as a result of the experience of the March of Return, which some Palestinians consider to have achieved nothing but a significant increase in the number of martyrs, wounded, and people with disabilities as a result of crimes committed by the Israeli army forces. However, during the past few days, the Hamas movement has continued to support the youth to fight the occupation in order to pressure the occupying state to ease the siege and increase the number of workers. Hamas realizes that by exerting pressure it will exact a price from the occupation for adhering to what it pledged during the past years to ease the siege and increase the number of workers.

As a result, the occupying state responded under pressure. It is true that the price paid by the Palestinians is great, and this requires new Palestinian thinking about dealing with the crises in Gaza, which will not end as long as the occupation, siege, and division remain.

The announcement of the opening of the Beit Hanoun “Erez” crossing at midnight last night, according to Israeli analysts, is due to fear of public criticism in the occupying state, and talk that the army and security services prefer to focus on the West Bank, which has become a major challenge facing the occupation.

The occupying state's response and lifting of the closure may be for various reasons. Among them is what is happening in the occupied West Bank, and the successive and rapid events of the American-Saudi-Israeli movement, which is in the interest of Israel and has become a priority for it, and it wants to focus on the issue of normalization with Saudi Arabia, which is progressing rapidly and rapidly, as well as improving relations with the American administration, and there are positive steps towards Netanyahu, and this affects The protests of the Israeli opposition, which felt disappointed, after the Biden-Netanyahu meeting, which is also under pressure from what is happening in the West Bank and the intense pressure on it from the settlers and the opening of more than one front will affect Netanyahu and his government from the extreme right-wing crowd.

What Israeli analysts are reporting is that the West Bank is exhausting the Israeli army, and that any escalation or military operation against Gaza will not end the resistance. This does not mean that Gaza has emerged from the circle of targeting and pressure.

Despite promises to provide new facilities within the policy that has been in place for a decade and a half, this needs serious thinking, and the occupying state is continuing aggressively in its aggression and policy against the Palestinians, and is trying to populate an area and cool it down in order to pay attention to another area within the Israeli dismantling policy, and to complete the project to annex the West Bank. The Palestinians are immersed in researching the details of their daily lives and living, and all that is provided by economic facilities has become a humanitarian situation just as the world deals with the Palestinian issue.

Hamas may be able to exert pressure through demonstrations on the border, and to disturb and confuse the occupying state as well, but these are temporary solutions and painkillers, for a period of time, and Gaza will not get rid of its crises with these solutions, and this is linked to the state of disintegration that the Palestinians practice against themselves and their party, and the search for immediate individual solutions. Without realizing what is going on and confronting it without evasion and fear, especially in the Saudi-Israeli normalization file.