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Despite international and Arab authorities warning of the danger of the attack on the Rafah Governorate in the southern Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his army continue to prepare to implement their military plan in the last refuge for displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Today, Saturday, the government media office in Gaza warned of a global catastrophe and massacre if Israel invades the governorate, which includes more than 1,400,000 Palestinian citizens, including 1,300,000 displaced people from other governorates.
According to military and strategic expert Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi, Netanyahu asked Israeli Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy for two separate operations, because the situation in Rafah is different from the rest of the Palestinian areas.
The Chief of Staff spoke about the evacuation process, which will be forced and not voluntary, and Al-Duwairi said that the destination - according to the Israelis - will be through three options: that the Palestinians be evacuated to the north, which the occupation demands to be a buffer zone.
The second option is for them to be evacuated to the Al-Mawasi area extending to the west of Khan Yunis and the outskirts of Rafah. The third option is to deport them to the Egyptian Sinai. “But, doesn’t Egypt have sovereignty over its land?” Al-Duwairi asked.
According to Al-Duwairi, the Israelis want to displace the Palestinians from Rafah to Sinai, and if they fail to do so, they will try to control the Philadelphia Corridor, but the military expert explained that the Israeli position is still ambiguous about the next step, especially in light of the differences between Netanyahu and the Chief of Staff regarding the implementation mechanism. .
Al-Duwairi also suggested that the Israeli threat and threat were merely a pressure card on the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) to make concessions.
The official Israeli Broadcasting Authority said that the military operation in Rafah would begin after the completion of a large-scale evacuation of civilians from the city and its suburbs. Before that, the Prime Minister’s Office announced - yesterday, Friday - that it had asked the army to develop a plan “to evacuate the population and destroy 4 battalions affiliated with the Hamas movement,” which it said were deployed in Rafah.
Regarding field developments in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, Al-Duwairi spoke about the occupation forces’ siege of hospitals and streets by snipers. He said that there are streets in the area that he called “Street of Death,” stressing that clashes are still continuing in that area between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation forces. .
Regarding the decline of the occupation forces and their withdrawal from the southwestern Gaza area, Al-Duwairi said - in his daily military analysis on Al Jazeera - that the resistance videos shown yesterday and the day before yesterday confirm that fierce fighting is still taking place between the resistance and the occupation army forces.
Source: Al Jazeera