The British Guardian published a report saying that Israel’s invasion of Gaza will turn the center of the conflict into… Occupied West Bank، While the Wall Street Journal said that the Israeli occupation army trained on a field example of a village in Gaza In preparation for a ground invasion.
The Guardian said that the goal of the ground invasion of Gaza is to eliminate the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation), but previous experiences indicate that they will fail despite being a superior military force.
The Guardian explained that Israel is planning an operation consisting of “three stages.” The first stage began with intense aerial bombardment, and will continue with ground operations aimed at neutralizing Hamas and destroying its infrastructure.
The second phase includes the destruction of any remaining resistance, followed by the final phase, which is the establishment of a large buffer zone around Gaza. With the presumed defeat of Hamas, the Gaza Strip will be separated from Israel and the international community will be responsible for providing its basic needs.
The British newspaper said that the occupation army will destroy more areas in Gaza, and the tunnels will be repeatedly struck with many American-made GBU-28 “bunker-busting” bombs, of which Israel possesses about 100, and may now possess a GB bomb. Yu-72 is the most advanced.
Containing the Palestinians in Gaza
She added that due to the determination of the Israeli Prime Minister’s government Benjamin Netanyahu If Hamas is absolutely destroyed, thousands more Palestinians will be killed and tens of thousands more wounded, and if the war ultimately ends, the Palestinians in Gaza will likely be contained to a much smaller area and subject to intense surveillance.
She said that the strategic risk for Israel is that instead of eliminating Hamas, the war will lead to tens of thousands of angry Palestinian youth joining the movement or a similar organization that succeeds it.
Removing the center of conflict
The newspaper pointed out that if the assumption is that this will be mitigated through tight surveillance of two million Palestinians crammed into a small part of Gaza, this ignores what is happening in the West Bank, where more than 3 million Palestinians live under occupation that has worsened under Netanyahu’s strict governments. .
The Guardian confirmed that the destruction of Gaza may lead to shifting the center of the conflict to the West Bank instead of actually ending it. In most parts of the Global South, especially in the region, an anti-Israel mood is growing, and Hamas already enjoys support in the West Bank, not to mention that the lack of The inefficiency and corruption of the Palestinian Authority make it an unimportant body.
Although the current international focus is inevitably on Gaza, the importance of the West Bank is overlooked, as well as its potential to be a new outpost for Hamas.
“Little Gaza”
For its part, the Russian newspaper “Gazeta” quoted the “Wall Street Journal” as saying that the occupation army prepared for its ground operation by training on a replica of a Palestinian village built in Negev desertThe model of the village was built in 2006, and it was called “Little Gaza.”
The village consists of 600 buildings, ranging from 8-story complexes to huts and schools designed for combat training in underground tunnels, mosques and markets. Israel also has a training base that mimics a Lebanese city.
