Israel plans to approve this afternoon the total occupation of the strip, which would begin with the expulsion of one million Gazati from Ciudad de Gaza, according to Israeli press
Por Joan Cabasses (Beirut).The Israel Security Cabinet has planned a meeting on Thursday afternoon in which it will make a decision on making the Gaza Strip as a whole. The expansion of the occupation on the enclave, which would carry the Israeli troops to 12% of the territory where most Gazatis are concentrated, would begin with the forced displacement of around one million people who are in Gaza City, according to the Israeli press on Thursday morning. This is half of the town of the enclave.
The plan plans to empty that territory and push the population to the south to allow the establishment of civil infrastructure in Gaza City, including hospitals and evacueted fields. This first phase would last weeks. This is reported by the Israeli television network Channel 12, in some information replicated by other Israeli media.
In a second phase, while the population is still cornered in the south, Israel would launch an offensive against the evacuated territories where it believes that Hamas hides the captives. In parallel, the US would announce the new efforts of the White House to increase humanitarian flow in coordination with Israel.
This information fits with the statements that Mike Huckabee, US ambassador to Israel, offered Wednesday night in the American media Bloomberg, where he said that Washington intends to increase the distribution areas of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation of only four to 16. An objective, added the ambassador, who want to see becoming a reality during the next “two months.”
The operation, also according to Channel 12, seeks to allow the help to reach the Gazaties without falling into the hands of Hamas in a city of Gaza under Israeli control. Other information media in Israel suggest that the military campaign could be extended for five months and that mediators Egypt and Qatar oppose the plan. They have also suggested that the Israeli authorities would seek at some point in the displacement of civilians to the south the way to boost “voluntary emigration”, the term with which the Israeli political class refers to the deportation of Gazati.
