Israel is destroying buildings and flattening areas of Gaza on the Israeli border to create a so-called “buffer zone” that Israel will militarize, demonstrating its long-term plans to occupy the Strip.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Israeli soldiers began working in November in an area in northern Gaza to create a wasteland roughly 1 kilometer in width. “Everything has been flattened,” one soldier said. “It was mostly agriculture. Now it’s a military zone, a complete no man’s land.”
Twenty-one Israeli soldiers were recently killed while planting explosives in a central Gaza neighborhood near the border as part of the work to destroy Gaza’s border areas. A Hamas rocket hit a nearby tank, detonating the explosives and collapsing the buildings.
According to a recent report from Israel’s N12 news, Israeli forces have already destroyed 1,100 of the 2,800 buildings in the border areas. Israeli officials have not confirmed the figures but have acknowledged they’re creating a “buffer zone” to prevent a future October 7-style attack.
Israeli officials claim the work is being done to “dismantle terrorist infrastructure,” but the fact that Israeli soldiers are able to plant explosives in buildings to demolish them makes it clear there’s no threat.
Financial Times reported that the US opposes Israel’s plans to take over Gaza’s border territory. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Tuesday that the US does “not want to see the territory of Gaza reduced in any way.” But the US continues to provide Israel with unconditional military support and political cover.
How much is the IDF paying for all that property they destroyed and taken ?
Zero,
The reparations bill keeps getting bigger and bigger
Yes,all progressives should have all their property seized;then they should be put at work building forts.
Might want to close read UNR 194, UNSC 2334 especially since it references ICJ opinion of 2004 and most recently the ICJ approval of provisional measures…..on page 1 the ICJ states REPERATIONS.
Get your check book ready
The spelling is reparationsHA HA Ha
And never paid.
How much did the Arab nations pay when they evicted 750,000 Jews? How much are they paying to the bereaved who lost civilian relatives during the pogrom,or the women gang raped?
Get a UNSC or ICJ ruling ; until then you are just blowing hot air.
The same could be said about your statement.
Seriously?
Yes-prove 1 thing I wrote is wrong,or be quiet.
I didn’t reply to you numbnuts. Or are you in fact Tim Burns?
jake is Tim Burns, AND, Don Julio. Same guy (or woman) pounding away furiously on his/her keyboard.
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Why are you hiding behind a made up name? I don’t.
And by posting with the name “jake”, you’re giving away your real identity? Man, you are a tool. Anyway, my name is rick. How’s that?
Jake, come on Wars is a true person of peace. He is. Stop the bloody bickering, we all have a lot to do. Let us, at least, try to get along on Antiwar.com…?
Thanks Donna. But to be honest I don’t want to get along with anyone who condones genocide.
Courts and diplomats often don’t solve everything.Sometimes the law is an ass,sometimes Judges are dirty. China still occupies Tibet.Accept the facts, even if they don’t coincide with your worldview.
In other words you are just blowing smoke.
In other words,you can not face facts,let alone differing opinions.
You assume all Arabs are the same nation? All share some collective guilt? So..
If Israel is the nation of all Jews, then when can we expect reparations from Israel for what G. Epstein did?
Only Israel is a diverse country with Moslems, numerous Christian sects, athiest,Druze ect.
Makes sense. When the hostages are freed, than Israel should leave Gaza. Seal the border and be done with that mess.
The border was sealed. They allowed its breach on purpose. No breach, no genocide. All the ignored warnings are proof of that. And this mess has just started.
It has been sealed for 16 years. The U.S. and Israel slapped the blockade on Gaza as punishment for Palestinians selecting Hamas to be the governing body, rather than the useless, complicit Abbas organization. It is very possible that the Israeli government allowed the breakout. Several months ago, I listened to an interview by Ralph Nader of Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former head of staff for General Colin Powell, and an ardent anti-war proponent. He said he would not go there, but, considering the resources of Mossad, Sin Bett, U.S. listening posts, likely spies in Gaza, he found it very hard to believe that Israel did not know anything. Netanyahu was tanking. His judicial changes were causing protests. So, create a “war” to bring the population together, forget his misdeeds, and have the opportunity for him to be a hero, have the “final solution” he, and his fascist followers wanted. Worked like a charm.
If you were a student of history you would realizes that history is full of surprise attacks that were massive intelligent failures. And someone always comes with a conspiracy theory to blame the attack on leaders of the victims. This is no different.
So if a person does not lock their door,does it gave someome a right to enter and kill their family?
Terrible analogy. How about leaving your door unlocked so your neighbor will enter your house so you can shoot him in the face. And then you go and shoot all of your other neighbors in the face just because they live in the same neighborhood. And you do this after you were warned several times that the first neighbor was going to enter your house if you left it unlocked.
Really a very good analogy. We should all have eyes in the back of our heads when we walk down the street.If Hamas had concentrated on military targets,that’s one thing.Entering villages,entering private homes,burning people alive,raping and mutilating is bestial,and Gazans are now being taught a good lesson.
“burning people alive,raping and mutilating.”
Still repeating Israeli lies, I see.
The burning alive was from tank rounds and rockets from helicopters. Hamas attacked with small arms. Only the IDF had the weaponry to cause those atrocities. And each and every atrocity Hamas did commit has been dwarfed by Israel’s response.
It was a horrible analogy. And if Hamas had concentrated on military targets nothing different would be happening right now. But the Israeli government put those people in harm’s way counting on their preferred Hamas to commit those atrocities that you continue to exaggerate. Ignoring all warnings and even failing to warn the organizer of the music festival.
“GAZANS ARE NOW BEING TAUGHT A GOOD LESSON.”
You are a disgusting pig. I hope everybody reads this.
Your analogy was not so good either. The simple fact is that Hamas pulled off a successful surprise attack. Not sure of their purpose, but I am sure that people of Gaza are paying the price.
Other than the fact that the surprise came despite a 3 day warning from Egypt, months of warnings from IDF soldiers and the fact that the IDF refused to warn the music festival of the impending attack. I put the FACTS in bold so maybe they would register this time. Otherwise, like “collateral”, you don’t seem to know the meaning of the word “surprise” either.
Since you like to put stuff in bold, look up the definition of military intelligent failure. If you understood history, you would realized there are many examples. And for every example there all always some nut job who will explain it as some conspiracy.
I put things in bold because you keep ignoring them. I’ll try again;
A 3 day warning from Egypt, months of warnings from IDF soldiers that Hamas was rehearsing their attack in broad fucking daylight and the fact that the IDF refused to warn the music festival of the impending attack
Explain away those warnings. You can’t use “intelligence failure” as an excuse when the necessary information is fucking handed to you.
It will be sealed tighter this time. Nuts to the idea Israel on purpose allowed the Hamas attack. And yes no breach (aka attack) no massive colleterial damage. And if Israel does the smart thing and pulls out Gaza once they get their kidnaped citizens back, than yes the mess called Gaza will still be going but it will not be Israel problem.
Once more:
3 day warning from Egypt, months of warnings from IDF soldiers and the fact that the IDF refused to warn the music festival of the impending attack.
Ignore if you want.
“no massive collateral damage”
At least you added “massive”. Maybe you’re developing a conscience.
And you are completely out of your mind if you think anything gets solved by the hostages getting released. In comparison, Gaza wasn’t a problem before October 7th.
And once more, a nut job wearing his tin foil hat adding 2+2 and getting 5.
Also you are out of your mind if you think Israel will stop their attacks while Hamas holds kidnapped Israel citizens.
Why don’t you refute what I said? Explain why those warnings were ignored. I didn’t make those things up, they’re have been common knowledge since the very beginning.
Yes, seal the border, the air and the sea zone, just like before. Great plan.
Nope, not like before. Before 10/7 18,000 people from Gaza had work permits to work in Israel.
Many commuted to Israel for work. Israel supply electricity and water to part of Gaza. And than there was the Kerem Shalom crossing which was a major trucking route for aid to Gaza. This time the border will be closed to anyone from Gaza crossing into Israel. No electricity or water service. And Shalom crossing not only be closed but dismantled.
Gaza will have rely on Egypt for aid crossing, build their own power and fresh water plants,
Yes, nothing says independents than being “permitted” to do things in their own land.
Your right. In my plan, Gaza is free or in your terms permitted to do what they want to do. Now the question becomes, would they build Gaza for a better life, or will they build Gaza to be a fortress for Israel to flatten again. It would be their choice.
Israel unfortunately never gave that choice, because Palestinians never got a permit for that type of life style.
If the plan is to occupy the strip what the hell is the purpose of the buffer zone creation…?!
To make is physically impossible for another breakout, like 7Oct. And, to fortify like never before to secure the concentration camp for the remaining Palestinians. Forever. They can then build a wall, similar to the Great Wall of China, from which Israelis can view the remaining Palestinians, living in their squalor. A compound, similar to a preserve, to viewed with amusement. I hate to be crass, but I detest the minds of the fascist Zionists, and believe there is no horror they have not thought of to present to the Palestinians. What gets me is the high numbers of the Israeli population, Jews, are perfectly all in on the genocide, removal. Sickening. Sad.
So you condemn all Israelis,even the pro-peacenicks.
what about any Palestinians who might be peacenicks?
Shut up, Hypocrite. You support Putin in Ukraine.
what about any Palestinians who might be peacenicks?
Hamas and the PLO liquidate them
Yes, it’s like punishing Italians in Italy for few Italian mobs that commit murder and racketeering. Got it.
Sooooo-give us your solution.
Once more justifying genocide. When in doubt use the old reliable. ‘But, but, if not genocide, then what’?
Collateral damage.
Yes, in your sick mind. When civilians are the vast majority of deaths and the vast majority of the people in famine and the vast majority of those displaced then you obviously don’t know what “collateral” damage is.
I don’t live there to give suggestions, and neither do you. But at least now we know you believe in collective punishment.
The peaceniks were the ones killed at the music festival. That same festival that the IDF didn’t give its organizers a heads up that an attack by Hamas was possible. So, if the peaceniks own government had no problem with literally condemning them, why should you have a problem with someone making a comment on this site?
So you condemn all Israelis,even the pro-peacenicks.
Belt AND suspenders.
IDF doesn’t want to be caught with their pants down again. Which they really weren’t on Oct 7. Things Went Well At Dealey Plaza, as it were.
Well, I mean, if their final solution works as planned, they won’t need a buffer zone. Unless the ASI gov’t decides to settle New Gaza with its 2nd-class citizens.
To answer your question, Israel long term plan is to not occupy the strip. Why would they want to take on 2.5 million welfare cases.
The Israelis are becoming the Nazis.
They are learning from your Russian people in Ukraine.
It’s trendy. Invade, destroy, annex.
A better analog would be the banderites in Kiev who were trying to ethnically cleanse Eastern Ukraine.
Pope Pius IX kidnapped a little Jewish boy-his parents never saw him again-he was a Nazi.
Israeli soldiers began working in November in an area in northern Gaza to create a wasteland roughly 1 kilometer in width. “Everything has been flattened,” one soldier said. “It was mostly agriculture. Now it’s a military zone, a complete no man’s land.”
way to go you freakin chosenite humanitaritians