An offensive that seems increasingly imminent. Since the Israeli army plan aimed at taking control of the city of Gaza was approved at the end of August, preparations are fair, such as the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks. This Tuesday, September 2, thousands of reservists were reinstated in the ranks of the Israeli army for this purpose.
The Israeli army is preparing “logistically and operational for extensive combat operations,” said a statement from Tsahal.
“The troops follow a series of combat training sessions in urban lots and vacancies to improve their preparation for future missions,” added the army, at a time when Israeli strikes continue in the Gaza Strip.
According to the terms of the plan, whose objective is to “defeat Hamas”, Israel wishes to carry out its purpose, called “Gideon II cars” in Gaza, devastated after more than two years of war and the intensification of Israeli bombings and 75% of the enclave is controlled by Tsahal.
• Towards a generalized assault
The Israeli plan is in five principles that are completed at the end of the war: the Hebrew State intends to obtain the disarmament of Hamas and the return of all the Israeli taken as hostages on October 7, 2023, either alive or dead. Israel also plans to “demilitarize” the Gaza Strip while guaranteeing “security control” and establishing, as a purpose, an “alternative civil administration that is neither Hamas nor the Palestinian authority.”
The Benjamin Netanyahu government claims to want a generalized assault on Gaza-Ville, with 60,000 reservists called in reinforcement.
This new offensive in Gaza-Vil peaceably In the current war for almost three years and has led to a humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip. While the offensive is preparing, Emmanuel Macron warned Tuesday that the offensive would not obstruct the recognition of Palestine sought by France.
• Several months before total control
However, it will happen months before this plan can be carried out. Military operations south of Gaza-Ville, as well as Tsahal’s recent progression to Jabalia, north of the city, form a kind of preamble that leads to the acquisition of the city, reports the Institute of Strategy and Security of Jerusalem.
According to the Institute of National Security Studies, a group of reflection specialized in Israeli security policy, the Israeli army will need several weeks to prepare its forces for this operation, which could also take months before leading to the total control of Gaza-Ville.
This hand implies de facto The evacuation of the rest of the population of Gazán. The operation could take place “in the next two months to the refugee fields located in the center of the Gaza Strip and other places,” according to the Israeli public radio Kan.
• A dreaded mass evacuation
The massive evacuation of the population must be feared, according to Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Red Cross Committee, in a press release. However, she considers that it is “impossible” that this evacuation “can be carried out safely and dignifiedly under the current conditions”, while the state of the famine was declared by the UN in Gaza-Ville, the first in the Middle East, according to the IPC report.
Despite these risks, several very well Israeli Israeli elected officials, a member of the Israeli government coalition, including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, begged in favor of a permanent Israeli permanent occupation of the Gaza Strip.
The minister said that Israel should “exercise total control over the entire Gaza Strip, forever” and said his desire to annex “a security perimeter” and open “the doors of Gaza to voluntary immigration.”
During a meeting of the security firm organized on Sunday, August 31, the exchanges heaters opposed Benjamin Netanyahu, on the one hand, and their ministers, who wish to continue the offensive in the city of Gaza, and on the other, the chief of staff of the Eyal Zamir army, which called the political leaders to reach a cessation agreement.
• Negotiations to send Gazaouis abroad
Benjamin Netanyahu said in early August with Fox News, that Israel will not “keep” the control of the Gaza Strip. “We want to give it to the Arab forces that will govern it properly, without threatening, and will offer Gazanis a pleasant life,” he said, added that he wanted to “free” the territory of Hamas.
Therefore, Israel is “in conversations with several countries” about the reception of displaced gazauis, according to the prime minister. Libya, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Indonesia and Somaliland have mentioned as possible options.
However, this possible displacement of the population is firmly convicted of the United Nations. “A lot of people would limit themselves to even smaller spaces, with movement restrictions. Therefore, no, it is certainly not acceptable,” denounced the spokesman for the UN Human Rights Commissioner, Ravina Shamdasani.
“As an occupying power, Israel must comply with all its obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law,” said UN Secretary Antonio Guterres.
• An American plan for post-gaza
For its part, the United States is also interested in the future of the Gaza Strip. According to Washington Post information, which has consulted a 38 -page prospect on a plan called Great Trust (for the reconstitution of Gaza, economic acceleration and trust), the Trump administration builds a plan to make the Palestinian enclave largely covered with debris a territory under supervision with the tourist vocation.
For several months, the plan has been praised by the president hasMérican speaks of a desire to build a “côte d’Azur du Middle East”.
Donald Trump had also been praised by Benjamin Netanyahu, who estimated that this project could “change history.”
Source: BFM TV
