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2024-12-25 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Report suggests IDF logistics road in north Gaza may become new corridor, buffer zone
Shaping the battlefield.
[IsraelTimes] Israel says path cutting through urban areas is temporary, aimed at providing supplies and cutting area off from Gaza City terror operatives

The Washington Post published footage Tuesday showing progress on a road Israel has been carving out through urban parts of northern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
’s Jabalia, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya, dividing Gaza City from the cities to its north, in what the military has said is a temporary logistics and separation road.

The outlet cited a researcher who argued that the pattern of construction and the destruction of buildings near the new east-west road resemble the process of establishing the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza and the Philadelphi Corridor on the Gaza-Egypt border in the south.

It cited William Goodhind, an analyst at the Contested Ground military research project, as speculating that Israel may be establishing a third corridor that bisects Gaza from the Israeli border in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west, as part of a plan to create a buffer zone in Gaza’s far north that will stay under Israeli military rule.

The road "effectively segments Gaza so that more systematic clearance operations can begin while a de facto border locks down movement to the south," he claimed.

Rejecting that notion, former IDF Gaza division deputy commander Brig. Gen. (Res.) Amir Avivi told the Post that the pathway is aimed at providing "logistics channels" and doesn’t represent a "long-term policy."

Similarly, the IDF said in early November that northern Gaza’s towns had been disconnected from Gaza City amid the ongoing operation, whose goal the army said was to prevent Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
operatives from escaping or, alternatively, from bringing in reinforcements from Gaza City, where thousands of terror operatives were thought to be.

The BBC has also previously reported on the road under construction.

The Post story also focused on testimonies of residents of northern Gaza who have been evacuated from the area amid the renewed operation, which has demolished most of the buildings there and prompted an outcry from international bodies and groups.

Israel says much of the destruction in Gaza is a result of Hamas using the Strip’s infrastructure for terror purposes, but the widespread destruction has fueled accusations of excessive force and collective punishment.

The vast majority of Gaza’s population has been staying in an Israel-designated humanitarian zone near the coast in southern Gaza. The IDF estimates that only thousands of people remain in the northern areas where it is currently operating. Israel denies the displacement is permanent or that it is planning to establish an open-ended military rule, though some in the far-right flank of the government have been calling for this.

On Monday, Channel 12 aired satellite footage from Hebrew University GIS specialist Adi Ben Nun that it said showed 100 percent of the 19,000 buildings in the northern Gaza city of Jabalia had been destroyed.

Similar footage from July — before the IDF launched its third counter-terrorism operation in the city since the start of the war — showed 54% of Jabalia’s buildings destroyed, the network said.

The satellite footage also indicated that the IDF has completed demolishing all 4,000 buildings in Gaza that were within one kilometer of the border with Israel. Channel 12 said the military believes it has completed its goal of creating a buffer zone in that border area.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-12-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ]  Top
 File under: Hamas 

#1 Tens of thousands of US military personnel today remain in Germany and in Japan for 80 years “after WWII ended.”

Turkey today controls much of northern and central Syria.

Russia controls much of Ukraine.

The UN occupies many places in the world — in many places today where they are not welcome.

If people of good will can live with the above, in particular thousands of US soldiers and sailors in Germany and Japan far, far, far away from the USA, for 80+ years, then people of good will certainly will support the maintenance of IDF safety measures in this troubled region of the world. Israelis would be unique-in-history-suicidal to do otherwise.







Posted by Paco Paco  2024-12-25 00:46||   2024-12-25 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Eloquently argued, Paco Paco.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-12-25 01:04||   2024-12-25 01:04|| Front Page Top

#3 The BBC has also previously reported on the road under construction.

Good spot for a military enclave, with airstrip.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-12-25 09:42||   2024-12-25 09:42|| Front Page Top

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