Massive destruction caused by the Israeli bombing of Gaza (French)
The Wall Street Journal quoted military officials as saying that the Israeli army is working to expand the road in the central Gaza Strip to facilitate the military operation, which is the road that Israeli media reported a few days ago and said that it separates the north of the Strip from its south.
The newspaper continued, citing the same sources, that the road that Israel is working on is part of its efforts to reshape the terrain of the Gaza Strip, and will allow the Israeli army freedom of movement and tightening control.
The newspaper also explained that the construction and expansion of the road is taking place simultaneously with the establishment of a kilometer-deep buffer zone inside the Gaza Strip, noting that the road that Israel is building constitutes a military belt that prevents the return of about a million Palestinians.
According to the military officials cited by the newspaper, Israeli military engineers are planning to destroy homes and buildings along the road in Gaza.
The Israeli Channel 14 revealed that the army had begun constructing a paved road from the east of the Gaza Strip to its west, with the aim of separating the northern Gaza Strip from the rest of its parts.
The private channel, which is close to supporters of the Israeli right, said on Saturday evening that Transverse Road 794 starts from the area of the Nahal Oz settlement in the Gaza Strip, and extends westward into the Strip almost to the Mediterranean Sea, and it cuts the Strip’s ties.
The channel quoted the commander of the 601st Battalion, affiliated with the Combat Engineering Corps, Lieutenant Colonel Shimon Orkabi, as saying, “We are now within the scope of the Netzarim Road (a former Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip), which creates a barrier between the north of the Strip and the central and southern regions to protect the area and penetrate into the areas where there is a "The enemy, preventing movement between north and south and controlling it precisely."
Despite mounting regional and international warnings of possible catastrophic repercussions, the Israeli army is preparing to invade Rafah, the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt, where there are at least 1.4 million Palestinians, including 1.3 million displaced persons whom Israel pushed from the north and center of the Gaza Strip to its south, claiming that it is an area Safe.
Since October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza that has left more than 29,000 martyrs and more than 68,000 wounded, most of them children and women, in addition to thousands missing under the rubble, according to the Palestinian authorities.
For the first time since its establishment in 1948, Israel is being tried before the International Court of Justice, the highest judicial body in the United Nations. On charges of committing genocide against the Palestinians.
Source: Al Jazeera + agencies