Plan to Push into Humanitarian Zone
Collision with ‘Two-State Solution’… Concerns of War Intensification,
On the 23rd (local time), at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, filled with fire and smoke due to an Israeli drone attack, firefighters arrive and are busily moving about. Khan Yunis Reuters Yonhap News,
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, ‘Israel, having broken a two-month truce with the Palestinian armed faction Hamas and resumed warfare, has even devised a plan to reoccupy the Gaza Strip. The gist of the plan is to push 2.2 million Gaza residents into a ‘humanitarian zone’ the size of Ulleungdo. This signifies the abandonment of the ‘Two-State Solution’ where Israel and Palestine coexist, raising concerns of intensified warfare between the two sides.’,
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, ‘On the 24th (local time), the Financial Times (FT) reported, citing Israeli high-ranking officials, that “recently, Eyal Zamir, the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), drew up a plan centered on reoccupying the Gaza Strip.” If this plan is approved by the security cabinet led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the IDF will launch additional offensives to neutralize Hamas and gain control of the Gaza Strip.’,
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, ‘ MobileAdNew center ‘, ‘Israel occupied the Gaza Strip in the third Middle East war in 1967, but withdrew settlers and troops in 2005 as part of a peace agreement. Even after the 2023 Gaza war, Israel focused only on eliminating Hamas, not on occupying the territory.’,
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, ‘However, the current plan aims to reoccupy the Gaza Strip and forcibly relocate Palestinian residents to the ‘Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone’ with an area of 77 km² in central and southern Gaza. This essentially means forcing the 2.2 million Gaza residents into a land slightly larger than Ulleungdo (73 km²).’,
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, ‘This plan has been made possible thanks to Donald Trump’s return to the White House. He supports Netanyahu’s stance by advocating for U.S. occupation and development of Gaza and the overseas migration of Gaza residents. FT predicted that the war with Hamas would intensify in the future. There is a growing concern that a reoccupation of Gaza by Israel could lead to the potential for rebellion or uprising among the residents.’,
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, ‘Meanwhile, AFP reported that Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal, who made the Oscar-winning documentary ‘No Other Land’ this year, was attacked by Israeli settlers and taken into custody by the IDF at his home in the West Bank on this day. Ballal, who won the Oscar for Feature Documentary for ‘No Other Land’, which deals with the realities faced by Palestinian residents, had been receiving death threats from Israeli civilians since early this month.\n’]