Israel’s Gaza Solution: Let Palestinians Die Before the World. Bombing Hospitals and UN Institutions. Nobody Will Stop Israel
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It is worth trying to forecast Israel’s coming moves on Gaza.
First of all, in spite of Israeli vows to destroy Hamas, Hamas is not being defeated by Israel.
“As Israel opens a new southern front in its war in Gaza, it is still far from achieving its stated military objective: the total destruction of the Hamas militant group that rules the strip and spearheaded the Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel.
At least 5,000 Hamas militants have been killed, according to three Israeli security officials, leaving the majority of its estimated 30,000-strong military wing intact.
The Israeli officials spoke to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing military operations and details that have not been made public.” (The Washington Post, December 5, 2023)
Obviously, Israel is not going to give up on destroying Hamas and solving its “Gaza problem.”
So, facing the fact that Israel cannot destroy Hamas, what is Israel going to do next?
While Israel cannot destroy the fighting force of Hamas, Israel has no qualms about killing children and civilians.
Until now, more than 16,000 Gaza Palestinians have been killed by Israel, of which more than 5,000 are children.
Israel kills more children than Hamas fighters. Israel also has no qualms about bombing hospitals and even UN institutions in Gaza. Choking off international humanitarian aid trying to reach the suffering Palestinian population has also become an Israeli specialty.
With such a level of Israeli happiness for killing civilians, Israel’s option is to turn Gaza into a ruin and death camp. Even permanently. Then cut this ruin of human suffering into squares with Israeli military corridors between north and south, between east and west. Cut northern Gaza from the South. Split southern Gaza into two parts east and west. Create an Israeli “security” perimeter from Gaza territory all around Gaza.
Before the Gaza war, Gaza with only 365 km2 for 2.2 million people was already one of the most densely and poorest areas on Earth. Since then, the space left for 2.2 million Gaza residents in Gaza has been halved with the Israeli “order” to evacuate northern Gaza. Next, Israel is now “ordering” the evacuation of the eastern part of southern Gaza, once again halving the space available for 2.2 million Gaza Palestinians. Soon, the Gaza Palestinians will be packed 4-6 times more densely than they ever were, with only something like 30-40 m2 (including streets and public spaces) for every Palestinian survivor. Imagine 2.2 million people on 80 km2 area – or less.
Already, 85% of Gaza citizens have been made homeless. The only 15% inside Gaza who still have a home will be homeless too within short time. Inside Gaza, aid, food, fuel, and medicare will be choked off by Israel to increase suffering – and on a permanent basis. Under the argument of “restricting Hamas.” Hamas will then “govern” a heap of people dying in ruins and Hamas will be incapable of inflicting damage on Israel.
As the World protests, Israel don’t care. Israel will cynically say to the World, including not only Muslim countries but also the EU, that “if you care about Gaza Palestinians, then take them!” The longer the EU and Arab countries refuse to take Gaza refugees, the harder and longer they will have to watch Gaza civilians including their children suffer and die by the tens of thousands – maybe by the hundreds of thousands.
Nobody will stop Israel. Either the World will take 1 or 1.5 million Gaza Palestinians, and Israel can then “clean up” Gaza once it is mostly emptied of its Palestinian population; or if the World doesn’t play into that, Israel will let 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza rot and die before the World.
The negative repercussions for Israel of this will take years to build – or be forgotten.
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Karsten Riise is a Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School and has a university degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from Copenhagen University. He is the former Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Mercedes-Benz in Denmark and Sweden.
He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
Featured image: Made in Israel – by Mr. Fish
