Norman Finkelstein: What’s happening in Gaza isn’t just a war – it’s genocide. 42M tons of rubble, destroyed hospitals, obliterated universities. 70% of infrastructure gone. This isn’t about Hamas – it’s about erasing Gaza from the map. pic.twitter.com/6rKpmjftAS
— Furkan Gözükara (@GozukaraFurkan) November 28, 2024
Obviously, the plan from long before October 7th actually happened was to use October 7th as a jumping board for seizing all of Palestine and also getting the US involved in a war with Iran.
This should have been obvious to everyone very early on, but instead, people are shocked to find the Jews annexing Gaza.
If this was not predictable, then what does the word “predictable” even mean?
The Israeli military will remain in Gaza for many years, fighting against fresh Hamas recruits in the territory and could be responsible for delivery of humanitarian aid there, a senior Israeli minister has said.
The comments by Avi Dichter, Israel’s minister for food security and a member of the Israeli security cabinet, confirm an emerging picture of a long-term deployment of Israeli troops inside Gaza, with no immediate Israeli plan for any other administration to govern the territory’s 2.3 million people and begin reconstruction there.
“I think that we are going to stay in Gaza for a long time. I think most people understand that [Israel] will be years in some kind of West Bank situation where you go in and out and maybe you remain along Netzarim [corridor],” Dichter said.
Reservists who recently served in Gaza have described to the Guardian the scale of the new military infrastructure built in the territory by Israel. This includes extensive new camps and roads across a swath of northern and central Gaza.
One recently demobilised officer said he had spent much of the previous 70 days demolishing houses to clear more ground for what had become a series of big military bases in Gaza’s Netzarim corridor, a military zone that has been established between the Mediterranean coast and Gaza’s eastern perimeter fence.
“That was the only mission. There was not a single construction left that was taller than my waist anywhere (in the corridor), except our bases and observation towers,” he said.
The eyewitness accounts confirm reporting by Israeli media of extensive construction by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in the Netzarim corridor and elsewhere in Gaza.
So much explosive has been used to destroy buildings to the north and south of the Netzarim corridor that some units have run short, other demobilised reservists said.
“We are not again at the beginning … but we’re definitely not at the beginning of the end because we still have a lot of work to do,” Dichter said last Sunday in a press briefing in Jerusalem.
Israel has been accused of clearing parts of Gaza as part of a deliberate plan to permanently displace residents, but denies the charge.
Yes, Jews deny everything.
I know.
We all know they deny everything.
That is not useful information.
What is useful to know is that the Jews have cleared out large parts of Gaza and they are now building their own long-term structures.
90% of people in #Gaza are now living in tents, leaving them vulnerable to respiratory and other diseases, food insecurity and malnutrition as winter approaches.
The ultimate solution to this suffering is not aid, but peace. pic.twitter.com/z6aj1QTOUW
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) November 29, 2024