Netanyahu says Israel will retain open-ended control of security in Gaza long after war with Hamas
Netanyahu says Israel will retain open-ended control of security in Gaza long after war with Hamas
Under U.S. pressure to prevent further mass casualties, Israel says it is being more precise as it widens its offensive into southern Gaza.
There it is, Israel is annexing Gaza. No more Palestinian state.
The Palestinian state is in the West Bank (about 16x the land area of Gaza).
It would be more accurate to say that the Palestinian state lost control of Gaza to Hamas, and Hamas is losing Gaza to Israel.
Because the west bank isn't under IDF occupation yet? Every day settlers are carving out chunks of it, and there's checkpoints everywhere.
The Palestinian Authority only has exclusive security control of roughly 18% of the West Bank -- Area A. However the IDF basically enters it whenever they deem it necessary anyway, so exclusive is a misnomer.
The PA has joint security control with Israel in 22% known as Area B. The rest of the West Bank -- 60% in Area C -- is under direct Israeli control. Area C is where all the illegal Israeli settlements are. Palestinians are also pretty much never granted building permits, etc in Area C. And it's worth noting that Areas A and B are non-contiguous as dotted islands of control inside of Area C.
The West Bank is a Bantustan. Plain and simple.
It would be more accurate to say that the Palestinian state lost control of Gaza to Hamas, and Hamas is losing Gaza to Israel.
Not wrong, but same outcome.
By this logic, Israel had already annexed all of Palestine before the 2005 withdrawal.
Not to mention, Israel has managed security in the West Bank forever. If Ramallah has actually been annexed, it's rather strange that you won't find any Jews there, and that it's actually illegal for Israelis to even visit this apparently annexed territory.
Perhaps the situation is slightly more complex than that.
Security for Israelis, not for Palestinians.
Israel bans Israelis from visiting Ramallah because they don’t want Israelis interacting with Palestinians, and especially shopping in Palestinian businesses.
Not really, nobody in Israel talks about dismantling Palestinian Authority
This is a book that has been written many times. It starts with a military occupation and ends in a Israeli state.
Ethnic cleansing.
No one else wants it (being peacekeepers) - or do you know anyone?
Doubt it, 15% of Israel are Muslim. They would become Israeli citizens like the rest did.
If Israel actually gave all Palestinians Israeli citizenship, you'd be right. But, that's not going to happen. Why do you think the Nakba happened and Israel keeps rejecting Palestinian right of return? They want Israel to have a Jewish majority and they're willing to commit Apartheid and ethnic cleansing to get it.
Hey look that’s what we’ve been saying all along. Israel just looking to annex more land.
More like setting up checkpoints between cities. Actively hunting for terrorists and launch sites and the return of settlers and settlements to Gaza. Hamas did it!
Fascist scum.
Sounds like apartheid to me.
Probably settlements like east bank.
This article has been removed by AP - the URL links to the live update stream from Dec 6th, and links from other articles to this one are similarly broken.
Was this article formally retracted?
The link works just fine for me.
The link works just fine for me.
Which lemmy client are you using?
The title of the linked article is "Israel moves into Gaza’s second-largest city and intensifies strikes in bloody new phase of the war", which appears to have been appended to the post URL:
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-12-05-2023-8f171da297b565e28156b88d1fc250b1 Israel moves into Gaza's second-largest city and intensifies strikes in bloody new phase of the war
Link works fine
Nah, OP just picked a sentence from the article and used that as a title to generate the specific response they wanted.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The military said its forces were “in the heart” of Khan Younis, which has emerged as the first target in the expanded ground offensive into southern Gaza that Israel says aims to destroy Hamas.
Military officials said they were engaged in the “most intense day” of battles since the ground offensive began more than five weeks ago, with heavy firefights also taking place in northern Gaza.
In other developments, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military would have to retain open-ended security control over the Gaza Strip long after the war ends.
The assault into the south is triggering a new wave of displaced Palestinians almost two months into the war, raising warnings from relief groups that they can’t keep up because supplies are insufficient and combat prevents distribution.
In the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah, just north of Khan Younis, a strike Tuesday destroyed a house where dozens of displaced people were sheltering.
Dr. Nasser Bolbol, head of neonatal intensive care at the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Younis, said acute hunger was spreading, with some deaths of children from dehydration and undernourishment, after nearly two months with only limited aid entering the territory, under an Israeli seal.
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