The CEO of the Israeli Association of Travel Agencies issued a warning today, drawing some very disturbing images about the future (if there’s any) of tourism and travel inside the Occupied Palestine under the shadow of the ongoing invasion of Gaza by the Israeli terrorist army.

According to the official, “about half of the 6000 workers who were serving in travel agencies have been sent to mandatory leave and unless the government extends the aid programs, thousands of other workers will stop working in the section”. Almost two months of barbaric aggression against the worlds biggest open-air concentration camp with frenzied bombardments and disposal of military equipment, has started to take its toll from different sections of the fragile and dependent economy of the Zionist Regime.

And as expected during wartime, the very first section to incur the toll because of the utter absence of security, is tourism industry and traveling business. The Israeli official admits the fact by providing statistics which should scare not only the government officials, but also the settlers who live inside the Occupied Palestine. “Since the outset of the war”, the Israeli official says, “the activity of overseas tourism industry has experienced an %80 reduction and around 200 offices member to the Association are working with just %20 of the capacity compared to the pre-Pandemic era”.

Statistics indicate that Israeli settlers are barely going to overseas tours during the vacations, a bless for the entire world which have multiple reasons: “many are obligated to stay under the command number 8 (summoning the reservists and further evidence to prove there are no such things as ordinary Israeli civilians), there is an increasing fear of anti-Semitism in some counties, and there are multiple warnings from the counter terrorism headquarters”, according to the official. To describe further the miserable life of Israeli settlers and the economic tragedy unfolding before their eyes, the Israeli official emphasized “most of the international airliners have canceled their flights to Israel [the Occupied Palestine] at least until the end of the year and some even further until the next year. Foreign tourists avoid traveling to Israel [the Occupied Palestine] and due to the public mobilization call of the family members, most of Israelis [occupiers] rarely travel anywhere.

The tourism industry is in absolute crisis and there is no perspective for a recovery in the near future”. Tourism industry in Occupied Palestine in not the first economic section to indirectly announce its bankruptcy since the beginning of the invasion of Gaza by the terrorist Israeli Regime. Many commentators have voiced their concerns about a possible significant economic crash in the near future from which the Israeli government cannot survive in case the war goes on and the sufficient foreign support is not delivered. This makes the decisions made inside the U.S. of unprecedented importance for every single Israeli settler; a fact which along the exhausted economic-support capacities of the West over the war in Ukraine, draws a terrifying picture for the possible future of occupiers in Palestine.

No Options On the Table

Today, few hours after the American Secretary of Defense, Loyd Austin, dropped the bombshell on Israeli authorities by warning them about a possible (you read highly expected) strategic defeat in Gaza, one of the Israeli outlets reported a visit to the Occupied Palestine by a delegation from the U.S. chaired by the American Vice President Kamala Harris arranged for the same day! According to the Israeli outlet, the delegation is set to inform the Zionist authorities that basically all the scenarios they had envisioned at the outset of invading Gaza are now off the table: “in a statement issued on Saturday in Dubai, Harris pointed out the principles of the U.S. administration for the day after the war. As per the statement, Gaza will not be a base for launching attacks against Israeli; no Palestinians will be displaced from Gaza; the siege of Gaza will be stopped; there will be no such thing as retaking Gaza or reclaiming the territory by Israel; and there will be no reduction of the territory”.

Although the proposed plan of the U.S. for ending the aggression of Israeli terrorist army contains the expansion of jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority to the Gaza which might slightly save the face of the defeated Israeli terrorist army, but knowing the limitations of this idea and yet presenting it as the only solution at hand (at least for now), means nothing for Israel but the impossibility of keeping the flow of support intact.