By Ali Karbalaei

Are Palestinians in Gaza facing another Nakba? 

November 17, 2023 - 22:21
The Israeli sinister plot may not be easy to implement

TEHRAN- The nuclear-armed regime in Tel Aviv appears somewhat confused about what its war on Gaza is really trying to achieve, as it seems to have given its military no explicit instructions. 

The publicly stated mission of the regime was to remove Hamas from power or as the Israelis labeled it; to "destroy Hamas". 
Israeli leaders, amid growing anger towards them, very quickly thought of a second plan. The plan, as they claim, is to free Israeli captives held by Hamas. 

After nearly six weeks of the most intense attacks in modern history and on the most densely populated region in the world, the regime has achieved neither of those objectives. 

The Palestinian resistance continues to blow up Israeli tanks, kill soldiers, and obstruct the Israeli military's ground offensive while hitting Tel Aviv with missiles in the meantime.

During this time, what has become clear is that there is a much more sinister goal for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet. 

The huge and indiscriminate bombing campaign against Gaza has killed more than 11,000 people. With the majority of the casualties consisting of women and children, it seems that the regime’s initial plan wasn’t to “destroy Hamas”. 

Over the past several days, the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza has stopped updating the Palestinian death toll amid the regular suspension of communication. 

The Palestinian health ministry in the occupied West Bank has taken on the task, which has proven very difficult to implement as connections with the totally blockaded Gaza Strip have been regularly cut off. 

This is sometimes done deliberately by the Israeli military, and on other occasions, the lack of fuel entering the enclave means Gaza's main telecommunications operators are unable to function and provide phone services. 

What we do know is that from the more than 11,000 Palestinians the Israeli military has killed, the tens of thousands it has injured and the thousands of others under the rubble of collapsed buildings, women and children make up 70 percent of that number, while other civilians make up the majority of the rest. 

Hamas says very few of its members have been killed. 

So why is the Israeli military pressing on with its military operations, whose publicly stated goals have failed? 

In the early days of the war, the Israeli army dropped hundreds of thousands of leaflets calling on the residents of northern Gaza to flee the northern part of the tiny coastal enclave and head to the Southern Gaza Strip. 

Israeli military and political leaders publicly called on Gaza’s civilians to do so, telling them that they would be considered military targets if they didn’t leave. 

The leaflets said the same. The regime even provided routes for civilians to head south, where the Israeli military alleged, they would be safe from airstrikes and ground assaults. 

As the Israeli military presses on with airstrikes and with its heavily armed ground forces now trying to conquer northern Gaza, albeit failing miserably at doing so, a vast majority of families in Gaza have headed south. 

They have done so in the knowledge that their homes have been destroyed, and they may, quite possibly, never step foot into their lands again.

Israel seems to be pushing a displacement campaign that has outraged UN agency bodies. 

Most of Gaza’s population is now crowded into southern Gaza, including hundreds of thousands who responded to the regime's orders to evacuate the north. 

Some 1.5 million people driven from their homes have packed into UN shelters or houses with other families.

The Israeli military is now dropping leaflets, once again, warning Palestinians in areas east of the southern town of Khan Younis to evacuate to a "safe zone" in Mawasi.

The heads of 18 UN agencies and international charities have rejected the creation of this so-called safe zone, saying that concentrating civilians in one area while hostilities continue is too dangerous.

Despite the Israeli military having told Palestinians to leave northern Gaza for the south, the regime's attacks have continued in the south.

In the city of Deir al-Balah, a funeral was held for 28 people killed in an overnight bomb that leveled more than one residential building. 

The development comes as an Israeli minister strongly hinted the next target for the regime will be southern Gaza. 

The regime's minister of war, Yoav Gallant, has said the ground operation will eventually "include both the north and south". 

Should the ground offensives move into the south, it is not clear where the Palestinians will have to go. 

Egypt has refused to open its borders to Palestinian refugees forced to leave their homes by Israeli forces.

Egypt has received a number of medical evacuees from Gaza through the Rafah crossing this month, most of whom have been taken to Egyptian hospitals for treatment, but is fully aware of the Israeli plot to displace the Palestinians. 

At a briefing for foreign media in Cairo, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry highlighted: "we have to concentrate on getting medical facilities established inside of Gaza so it can be more accessible to Palestinians who are in need for medical assistance".

In a further indication, the regime may begin to concentrate attacks in southern parts of the territory, where Gazans had been told to flee to over recent weeks. As Gallant has said, "the next stage has begun".

He alleges that Israeli forces have cleared the entire western part of Gaza City, while the Israeli military's Chief of Staff claims they are close to destroying Hamas's military system in the north.

Some Palestinians fear a second Nakba is on the way, remembering the time their grandparents were militarily forced out of their homes in 1948 (in the now Israeli occupied Palestinian territories) following the creation of the Zionist entity. 

But with Egypt standing firm in its stance since day one, there is hope for the families of Gaza. 

The Palestinian resistance, contrary to the Israeli mass propaganda campaign, which includes the creation of artificial narratives about alleged Hamas weapons depots and headquarters under civilian sites to justify its war crimes, is standing firm.

On Thursday, Israeli forces searched every floor and area of the al-Shifa medical complex in desperate hope of the alleged Hamas headquarters Israel’s spy agencies had informed them about. They were unable to find any races of Hamas. 
The armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, along with other Gaza-based resistance factions, are resisting the Israeli ground offensive, thwarting their advancements from every direction. 

The political wings of these groups will help rebuild the houses of Palestinian families, as they did so in previous Israeli wars on Gaza, and pave the way for Palestinian families to return home. 

This may take time as the regime says it plans to occupy parts of the Gaza Strip following the war, another grave mistake. The last time Israeli forces occupied the Gaza Strip, they ended up counting the body bags of their soldiers sent back to Tel Aviv and were forced to withdraw.

The delusional Israeli prime minister may have sinister plans for the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population, but the strength, faith and steadfastness of the Palestinian resistance will once again prevail, as it has done on many occasions in the past.

The only goal for Netanyahu is to avoid a prison sentence. 

At the end of the day, this is a battle he may have to fight by himself.
 

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