Military expert Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi said that Israel’s talk about creating a buffer zone is nothing but “daydreams.” Because it is still unable to control “Juhr al-Deek,” whose area does not exceed 6 kilometers.
Al-Duwairi added that the Israeli army’s sudden announcement on Friday of the start of the third phase of the ground operation, whose goals include establishing a buffer zone, indicates its failure on the ground and the search for repositioning in some areas.
Al-Duwairi reiterated that the Minister of Defence’s request Yoav Galant From the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Setting goals that can be achieved, “means that the goal of eliminating the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation“It’s over.”
He continued, “This takes us to the general context, which is that eliminating Hamas is no longer a goal on the table, and that the forces that entered the Gaza Strip did not succeed in maintaining the momentum of their attack, and thus the process of transformation began, and talk about a third phase.”
Regarding the philosophy of the buffer zone that Israel is talking about, Al-Duwairi said that it means complete control over the agricultural lands in the Strip from north to east and south, that is, about half of the area of the Strip, stressing that this matter is “not possible, neither militarily nor security-wise.”
Daydreaming
Al-Duwairi said that Israel spoke three times in the past about establishing a buffer zone, but reality confirms the difficulty of achieving this goal, as evidenced by the fact that they were completely occupying Gaza and were forced to leave it in 2006.
In addition, Israel – as Al-Duwairi says – “did not control Juhr al-Dik, which it entered since the first day of the ground operation (about two months ago), and its area does not exceed 6 kilometers, so how can it control 150 kilometers?!”
Even if Israel tried to control all of this area by stationing in… Gaza coverIt will not be able to, because it created something similar to this area at the fence separating the Gaza Strip and the cover area, and then it was destroyed by the return marches, as the military expert says, who confirmed that what Israel is talking about is “nothing but daydreams.”
Regarding controlling the Philadelphia era in the south of the Gaza Strip, Al-Duwairi said that the statements were contradictory regarding the occupation’s incursion into this region, adding that “the Egyptian side denied this news, and Israel spoke of attempts, and the resistance forced the Israeli forces to retreat.”
The military expert said that he is inclined to believe the resistance’s narrative because Israel wants to separate Egyptian Rafah from Palestinian Rafah.