Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza is progressing as planned. Israel has razed many of the Strip's towns and cities with bombs, rendering them uninhabitable, and is exterminating the population with bombs, gunfire, and weapons, searching for food. It is difficult to imagine what the future life will be like for the soldiers who participated in this offensive and who still retain some minimal consciousness, but who will hardly ever gain the respect or forgiveness not only of their direct victims, but also of a large part of the world's population, who watch helplessly as this ethnic cleansing is carried out live.
Just yesterday, nearly 100 more people died in food lines, according to sources from the Gaza Ministry of Health. Figures that, as usual, the Israeli army disputes, although it never fully clarifies the number of victims. It justifies the shootings with alleged threats against its soldiers. They seem to be afraid of the starving women and men desperately trying to find a little food. This desperation is caused by the restriction of aid, which has forced it to be concentrated in a single organization controlled only by Israelis and Americans. This system leads to shortages that have already caused the death of many children from starvation. Furthermore, the bombing of hospitals prevents the wounded from being treated.
They are also fragmenting Gaza, with "security" corridors that divide the territory to facilitate army movement, separate the different population centers, and concentrate the population in a few areas to keep it controlled and overcrowded. Yesterday, the evacuation of parts of the city of Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, was also ordered. Until now, the city had not suffered a ground invasion, although it had suffered multiple bombardments. Six corridors have been established so far. The first was Netzarim, which divides the Strip in two, north and south, and was established a few months after the start of the military offensive. Along this corridor, approximately six kilometers long and four kilometers wide, everything that existed has been razed to the ground to build a road and military bases to isolate northern Gaza and prevent the return of civilians forced to seek refuge in the south. There are two more corridors to the south, along the border with Egypt and around the city of Rafah. Another one in the north of the Strip, and another planned one, close to Netzarim, which would separate the cities of Deir al-Balah and Khan Yunis. And now another one has been announced, to the east and west of Khan Yunis.
The objective seems to be, in addition to killing as many Palestinians as possible, to push the population south, place them in large concentration camps, and do so in such a way that the situation becomes so unsustainable that they are forced to leave the Strip. Towards Egypt, presumably, or towards countries that will accept them as refugees, and for the moment it is unknown which ones that might be. The Palestinians, to the shame of humanity, are alone and will not have easy time finding refuge. The tourist complex Trump dreams of will be built on a cemetery, but it seems ever closer.
