Having seized upon the October 7 assaults as a pretext, Israel has moved to implement a long-term plan to render Gaza uninhabitable and both kill or expel its inhabitants. The assault on Rafah will mark a brand new stage on this huge crime. Andre Damon, World Socialist Internet Web site
On Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli navy to arrange a plan for the pressured expulsion of Palestinians positioned in Rafah, the southernmost metropolis in Gaza the place over 1.3 million displaced civilians have taken refuge in tent cities. The announcement was met with howls of protest from political leaders and human rights teams all over the world who perceive that Israel is now implementing the ultimate section of its ethnic cleaning operation which started on October 7. Regardless of the general public outcry and mounting opposition, Netanyahu is shifting forward together with his plan to drive the non-Jewish inhabitants from their historic homeland so as to set up a everlasting Jewish majority on Palestinian territory. That is from an article at Politico:
On Friday, Netanyahu introduced he had ordered protection forces to “undergo the cupboard a twin plan for each evacuating the inhabitants and bringing down the battalions” forward of an “intensive operation.”…In preparation of the assault, Israeli forces have ramped up their airstrikes and shelling on the southern Gaza metropolis…. Netanyahu’s plans raised alarm amongst help businesses and world leaders alike, who worry the results of a floor assault on a metropolis already overcrowded with civilians…
United Nations Secretary-Common António Guterres expressed comparable sentiments, saying that an operation in Rafah would “exponentially enhance what’s already a humanitarian nightmare with untold regional penalties.” Netanyahu orders Rafah evacuation forward of anticipated floor invasion, Politico
Consider, Netanyahu is utilizing a fully-equipped, state-of-the-art navy to subdue an unarmed civilian inhabitants. This isn’t a struggle in any conventional sense of the phrase. The Palestinians are being terrorized into compliance and compelled at gunpoint to maneuver from one location to a different. Now they’ll be pushed from the city space in Rafah to a barren plain that’s devoid of meals, water or safety from the weather. The target of this maneuver is to create a humanitarian disaster so colossal that international leaders will probably be pressured to enact an emergency resettlement program that can handle the refugee drawback whereas absolving Israel of any obligation. That is from the Telegraph on Saturday:
Netanyahu stated a “huge operation” is required in Rafah, including that he has requested safety officers to current a “double plan” that will embody civilian evacuations …It comes as Israel on Friday bombed targets in Rafah, increasing its Gaza floor offensive to the densely populated southern metropolis the place greater than half of the territory’s 2.3 million individuals have sought refuge.
Airstrikes in a single day and into Friday hit two residential buildings in Rafah, whereas two different websites had been bombed in central Gaza, together with one which broken a kindergarten-turned-shelter for displaced Palestinians. Twenty-two individuals had been killed, in response to AP journalists who noticed the our bodies arriving at hospitals. Netanyahu orders Rafah evacuation plan, Telegraph
The rationale Israel continues to kill non-combatants who’re in-no-way linked to Hamas, is as a result of it convinces everybody else that the bombing is “indiscriminate” which, in flip, means that the perpetrator is a deranged madman pushed by irrational hatred. That is how one terrorizes the general public into doing no matter is demanded of them. We count on that a lot of Israel’s present pysops in Gaza was meticulously labored out with a battery of behavioral psychologists lengthy earlier than the primary bomb was dropped, maybe, years earlier than the Hamas assault on October 7.
It’s additionally price noting, that Israel’s surprising blitz on Rafah comes on the heels of specific guarantees from senior-level Israeli officers that Palestinians who willingly left their properties within the North would discover security within the South. Now these similar individuals are being pelted with bombs and pushed into the desert the place their prospects for survival are dismal at finest. We are able to solely conclude that the explanation the Palestinians are being handled so horribly is as a result of they’re a part of the non-Jewish minority who’re extensively thought to be inferior to the Israeli Jews. The Palestinians usually are not being expelled as a result of they pose a nationwide safety menace however as a result of they’re extra prolific than the Jews who wish to preserve a large majority no matter the fee. In different phrases, the Palestinians usually are not being deported for one thing they’ve finished however for who they’re. That is from Reuters:
Egypt is shifting to avert a mass exodus from the Gaza Strip into its Sinai Peninsula… Israel’s assault on Gaza has induced alarm in Egypt, which has urged Israel to offer secure passage for civilians from the enclave somewhat than encouraging them to flee southwest in direction of Sinai….Egypt has despatched about 40 tanks and armoured personnel carriers to northeastern Sinai inside the previous two weeks as a part of a collection of measures to bolster safety on its border with Gaza….The navy has additionally taken up new positions near the border, operating patrols to observe the realm…
Rafah is the only doable crossing level into Sinai for Gaza’s 2.3 million residents. The remainder of the densely populated strip is surrounded by the ocean, and by Israel…
On Tuesday, the Israeli navy revised a advice by one in all its spokespeople that Palestinians fleeing its air strikes in Gaza head to Egypt. Egypt strikes to stop exodus of Palestinians from besieged Gaza, Reuters
There it’s in black and white. Israel goes to drive the Palestinians into the desert, create a ghastly humanitarian disaster, and finally power nearly all of them throughout the border and into Egypt. That is Netanyahu’s endgame, a Jewish-only homeland from the River to the Sea.
Who will cease him?
