Israel races time to complete the military operation it launched under the name “Gideon vehicles“With the aim of emptying The northern Gaza Strip From the Palestinians and the expansion of the buffer zone, before a possible fire agreement that may restrict its continuous military operations since October 20, 2023, as part of the extermination war it is waging on the afflicted Palestinian sector.
Anatolia news agency quoted a source close to the Palestinian factions, who preferred not to be identified, as saying that “Israel is trying to exploit the remaining few days before any expected calm, to expand the destruction and extermination of cities, especially the north and east of the North Governorate, east of Gaza City, east Khan Yunis (Southern Gaza).
He added that “Israel is seeking to destroy the remaining elements of life in those areas, to exhaust any opportunity to return the Palestinians to it, as it did in Jabalia camp“It was almost completely destroyed during the second half of 2024.
Change the demographic distribution
The “Gideon” operation – which was launched by the occupation army in mid -May – led to a fundamental change in the demographic distribution of the sector, as the population density was restricted to 3 narrow coastal areas: west of Gaza City, west of the Central Governorate, west of Khan Yunis.
According to the Anatolia correspondent’s follow -up, these three areas are largely separated from each other, as the Palestinians face while they are moving between them Israeli targeting or shooting.
West Gaza City Fullly surrounded, as it is bordered to the north by the North Governorate, which Israel referred to the city of Ashrah after its destruction and deserted its inhabitants, and from the east, it is bordered by the neighborhoods of Shujaiya, olives, apples, stairs, and the old town where the Israeli army is currently intensifying its operations.
While the Gaza City and its west are separated -over the southern regions of the Strip – Natsarim axis (Central), which is controlled by the Israeli army from the eastern side, and west of its mechanisms and marches.
The west of the Central Governorate is also separated from the city of Khan Yunis, which is the beginning of the southern governorate, what the Israeli army called the “Kissovim” axis, which penetrates hundreds of meters from the east of the province.
The Israeli army controls the eastern regions of Khan Yunis, and is trying to enhance its presence in the city center by deepening in the west near the “Al -Mawasas” crowded with the displaced.
As for the west of the city of Khan Yunis, it separates it from the city of Rafah (southern Gaza), the “Morag” axis, which is controlled by the occupation army and fired at any movement in its vicinity.
Almost completely, devoid Rafah city Of the Palestinians, after the Israeli army emptied it from its residents, at the threat of fire, bombing and massacres.
The areas extending along the Palestinian coast from the south of the city of Khan Yunis to the north of Deir al -Balah are known as “Al -Mawasas”, which are arid areas devoid of any ingredients for urban life and infrastructure.
The occupation army claims to be a “safe humanitarian area”, but it has not been spared from the Israeli raids that kill civilians and reap their lives.
According to the estimates of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, the area of the areas where the displaced currently is currently accumulated does not exceed 15% of the total area of the destroyed Palestinian sector.
According to the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation, “Gideon’s vehicles” are likely to continue for several months, including “the comprehensive evacuation of the entire Gaza population from the fighting areas, including north of Gaza, to areas in the southern Gaza Strip”, where “the army will remain in any area it occupies.”
Complete the destruction process
During the last week, the Israeli army climbed its bombing and house destruction operations, especially the multi -storey buildings that provide a strategic vision of the neighborhoods surrounding the north and east of Gaza.
He also targeted a number of schools that were harboring thousands of displaced north and east of Gaza after warning about the evacuation, as the Palestinian source considered this “a step aimed at preventing the Palestinians’ return to it in the future within the efforts of the Israeli army to empty the area of its residents.”
On June 30, it was launched Israeli army Rids on 4 schools housing displaced people after warnings of their evacuation, 3 of which were adjacent in the Al -Zaytoun and Al -Rabaa neighborhood in the Al -Tafah neighborhood. On July 3, the Mustafa Hafez School without warning was targeted, which resulted in the death of 17 civilians, including children and women, as well as the shelling of Al -Shafi’i School in the Al -Zaytoun neighborhood at dawn yesterday, Saturday, which resulted in the death of 7 Palestinians from one family.
The repeated targeting of the shelter centers reduced the inhabitants, which led the Palestinians to set up tents on the coastal strip, which intersects with Israel’s plans to force them to concentrate with open areas that lack the minimum elements of life.
According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA– A quotation from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – 85% of the area of the sector falls within Israeli military areas or is subject to orders to evacuate or both of both.
Destruction in the red areas
In the context, the Palestinian source said that the Israeli army is practicing large and systematic destruction in the “red” areas of the evacuation that it publishes, which are difficult areas to reach from the Palestinians to estimate the scale of the destruction.
He explained that the residents of the region hear daily between 20-30 explosions, caused by the blowing of homes in those areas, especially the north and east of Gaza, and the resonance of them in the middle of the Strip.
The source pointed to a video clip published by one of the contractors that Israel deals with to destroy the buildings north of Gaza, where it showed tremendous damage in the neighborhood of Tel Al -Zaatar and Sheikh Zayed City in the northern Gaza Strip “, which confirms the size of the operations organizing the extermination of cities in the Strip.”
Achieving gains
The source close to the Palestinian factions believes that Israel wants to intensify its military action in Gaza to achieve new gains, whether in the field – through the enhancement of control of the buffer zones that it intends to impose – and penetrate into new areas of the sector.
On the negotiating level, through the military pressure to strengthen its position on the proposal of the ceasefire, as well as at the strategic level regarding the displacement of the population, changing the demographic reality and remote arrangements after the war on Gaza, according to the source.
On Wednesday, the Israeli newspaper Maariv quoted security sources as saying that the army is “serious in its intentions to increase its activity in Gaza, and that it is pushing the entire forces in order to achieve a decisive victory over agitation Within days or weeks, “referring to new gains in the field.
On Thursday, the Israeli Channel 12 said that the army is preparing to complete control of the Strip through the five teams that “enlighten in the field”, which considered it “a huge thing that has not witnessed the same for more than a year.”
“Within these teams, it works in the Rafah area of the 143rd Division, as it works Division 36 In Khan Yunis, the 99th Division operates in areas Jabalia Without (North) Venta (middle) “.
“The fighting is currently concentrated in the Al -Shujaiya neighborhood (east of Gaza City), where the Israeli army expanded its operations during the past week,” the Israeli channel said.
She stated that “the army is preparing to surround Gaza City, the middle camps, and the Al -Mawsa area, which is the area to which most Palestinians were displaced.”
This comes in light of reports indicating progress in negotiations to reach a ceasefire agreement and the exchange of prisoners in Gaza.
The Israeli Prime Minister is scheduled to leave Benjamin Netanyahu -What is required for the court International Criminal For war crimes in Gaza- to Washington to meet the US President Donald TrumpAccording to the Broadcasting Authority, where Trump is expected to announce the ceasefire in Gaza next Monday, according to the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
According to Israeli estimates, there are 50 Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip, including 20 neighborhoods, while they are absent Israeli prisons More than 10 thousand and 400 Palestinians suffer torture, starvation and medical neglect, which killed many of them, according to Palestinian and Israeli human rights and media reports.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has committed American support genocide In Gaza, about 193,000 Palestinians left a martyr and a wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced people and the famine that have been tired of many, including dozens of children.