The Israeli military is planning to stay in Gaza through 2025 and is stepping up demolitions and the construction of more permanent military structures, Haaretz reported on Wednesday.
There is a significant portion of Gaza’s territory that’s under the control of the Israeli military, where the IDF has been destroying every building in sight and establishing military outposts, including the Netzarim Corridor, a strip of land that separates northern Gaza from the rest of the Strip.
According to Haaretz, the Netzarim corridor is currently five to six kilometers wide and about nine kilometers long, and the Israeli military is working to expand it even more. “Today, when you stand on the road in some places, you no longer see any houses,” an Israeli combat soldier said of the corridor, which includes the former site of a Jewish settlement.
The Israeli military has conducted a similar campaign of destruction along the Philadelphi Corridor, which is on the Gaza-Egypt border, and in a “buffer zone” along the entire Israel-Gaza border that cuts one kilometer into Gaza’s territory. In those areas as well, virtually all the buildings have been destroyed, and military outposts are going up. Haaretz previously reported that the Netzarim Corridor, the Philadelphi Corridor, and the buffer zone account for 26% of Gaza’s territory.
In northern Gaza, Israel is currently conducting an ethnic cleansing campaign focused on the cities of Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun, and Jabalia, which have been completely cut off from aid deliveries as the Israeli military is starving the civilian population. Israeli forces are also demolishing buildings in the northern cities so the expelled Palestinians have nowhere to return.
The ethnic cleansing campaign and conquering of Gaza’s territory is expected to pave the way for Jewish settlements in Gaza. “When you see the roads being paved here, it’s clear that this isn’t intended for the ground maneuvers or for raids by the troops into various places. These roads lead, among other places, to the places from which some of the settlements were removed,” an Israeli officer in Gaza told Haaretz. “I don’t know of any intent to rebuild them, that isn’t something we’re told explicitly. But everyone understands where this is going.”
Zionists plan to stay in Gaza forever, and they may rely upon Trump's support.
The Likud is delusional. The IDF barely holds the ground it stands on. 7 poorly trained IDF conscripts were KIA’d yesterday in one action. Sending more IDF against the underground fortress is sacrificing Israelis to no purpose.
Instead of doubling down on failure, the Likud should sue for peace.
Israel has the bomb. Israel has an insane person named Netanyahu.
You really believe the Likud wants to commit Mass Suicide ?
The Likud certainly do seem capable of subjecting Israelis to mass nuclear suicide in a Masada 2.0
Trump is expected to give Israel control of the West Bank, too.
So who is surprised? As I've said repeatedly, this ends when Israel is destroyed – completely and all Zionists are drive out of Palestine – and the US is driven from the Middle East permanently.
So what Israel – or Trump – "wants" is not relevant.
USA will sacrifice itself on Israel's altar.
In the loooong run, of course, you are right … through its inability to compromise, Israel has destroyed itself.
But in the short run, surely what Israel and Trump desire are relevant … many many lives will be destroyed per these "wants" …
In the loooong run, of course, you are right … through its inability to compromise, Israel has destroyed itself.
But in the short run, surely what Israel and Trump desire are relevant … many many lives will be destroyed per these "wants" …
An the Golan Heights. And Egypt. And Jordan. And Lebanon. And Chicago. And New York. And………………………..
Yeah, but Palestinians are planning to stay through 3025.
Where would you have them, the Palestinians, go?!
Nowhere. I don’t see how my comment could be interpreted otherwise.
Anyone notice that Haaretz provides a simple explanation for what we have been told since birth that it was complicated?
If they keep telling the truth, Haaretz may have to be banned in the US.
Yes … the new Congress will probably label them antisemitic and thereby illegal in the new improved USA.
Time to wake n bake!
Sure. And then they are going to leave. /s
Israel should know full well the meaning of Occupation.
O-C-C-U-P-A-T-I-O-N!
NO!
Israel is an uninvited guest, occupying and denying Palestinians just about everything and the US needs a much stronger policy in this regard. We, the US, are either helping to deter Israel’s invasive actions or actually encouraging them….
Which side are WE on?!….
It must be the side of truth, total honesty, in Order to proceed.
Israel: too much vanity?!
They do what dehumanized animals do. Menschen they are not.
https://www.indianpunchline.com/west-asia-reacts-to-trumps-dalliance-with-zionism/
MK Bhadrakumar
It is what it looks like, they are winning and lots of people left the country, as you did.
Oh hell, the Zionists plan to be there until the sun flames out. Judea and Sumeria are there's forever, you know. A book says so.