Beginning last November, an Israeli soldier and members of his reserve unit worked day after day in a northern section of the Gaza Strip to create a wasteland.
Their orders were to clear a 1-kilometer-wide area along the border, the soldier said, as part of an Israeli plan to construct a security zone just inside Gaza—to which Palestinians would be barred entry.
A kilometer-wide zone likely wouldn’t prevent future rocket launches or drone attacks from within Gaza by Hamas fighters and other militants who survive the war, analysts said.
Shaul Arieli, a former Israeli colonel who served in Israel’s Gaza division and is now an expert on Israeli borders, said the creation of a permanent buffer zone inside Gaza likely would be illegal under international law because Israel would be assuming control of land beyond its recognized territory and, as an occupying power, would be prohibited from altering boundaries.
For context: the border between Israel and Gaza is 36 miles long. 1 kilometer is (roughly) 0.6 miles. And they’re creating this ‘buffer zone’ on Gazan land.
Alright, so 36 miles long times 0.6 miles wide - they want to steal 21.6 square miles of Gazan territory (in addition to all the other killing and looting they’re doing). The entirety of Gaza is only 140.9 square miles, so they’re talking about essentially stealing 15% of all Gazan land here.
Fuck Israel. They want a buffer zone, build it on their own fucking land. They already have over 8367 square miles, 21 square miles is literally just a rounding error to them.
I don’t think you know what literally means.
A rounding error is the difference between an actual value and the value when rounded to the nearest whole integer. Like, when 1.25 gets rounded to just 1, the “lost” .25 is a rounding error.
21.6 / 8367 = 0.00258157046 . That’s roughly 1/4 of one percent. That’s a rounding error.
And this is why we’ve seen article about migrant laborers from India “risking their lives” in Israel…
Israel doesn’t have shit to rebuild on their side of the border, the migrants are to build in Gaza, land that Israel will say they have to seize for some bullshit reason.
And it looks like this is the bullshit reason
Don’t forget about how an international coalition has to pay to fix what the fucking Israelis broke in their pogrom
as part of an Israeli plan to construct a security zone just inside Gaza—to which Palestinians would be barred entry.
INSIDE Gaza. They already built their apartheid prison-wall inside Gaza, in violation of international law or Palestinian consent. Now they are going to take even more land for their concentration camp.
Israel is going to do whatever Israel wants to do, and the US is going to do absolutely nothing to stop it, and in fact, will support all actions being taken by Israel. People can’t even talk about what is really happening over there because they would be risking their job and livelihood by doing so. It’s fucked up.
Imagine if during WW2, you couldn’t mention the concentration camps or the gas chambers, lest the government, media, and general public send your reputation into oblivion.
To be fair during WW2 the party committing genocide didn’t take kindly to protestors either.
I mean geopolitically it makes sense why Israel goes crazy and shows massive force when threatened but that doesn’t make any of this less sad or morally wrong.
And it makes sense why Palestinians are drawn to groups like Hamas.
It’s not like they have much of a choice. Hamas are shit, but they’re the most dependable thing in the strip, sadly.
Not to mention, if they really wanted a buffer zone, they’d use the space outside Gaza for that. It’s not built up except for some kibbutzes.
This is a land grab, just like on the West bank. The buffer zone stuff is an excuse.
Israel lost the second that Hamas entered through the gates on October 7th. They would have won if they stopped the invasion before it happened.
Currently israel is just flailing at women and children while still completely unable to beat Hamas. Nobody is impressed by this. Israel looks weaker than ever before.
Neighboring countries around israel such as Egypt and Jordan have American puppet regimes installed that receive massive amounts of money and weapons to surpress their populations.
Israel is not impressing those countries, but rather making their populations so angry that the governments are risking being overthrown by the population if they don’t start attacking israel. Sisi is not a happy man right now.
Man, archive today as the primary link is super annoying.
Great article though!
Which one would you recommend? I can change the link because Lemmy is superior to Reddit
I always just use the original link as the primary and include the archive link in the post. That way it grabs the image, title, and subheading automatically. It’s also clear who’s publishing the article without having to click through.
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