Citizens inspect the effects of the destruction of Al-Farouq Mosque and buildings destroyed by Israeli raids in Gaza (Getty)
Le Monde newspaper said that the Gaza Strip, this narrow strip of Palestinian land, has become uninhabitable after 5 months of war, which means that there is no point in invoking the two-state solution if this land remains a field of ruins.
The French newspaper explained - in its editorial - that analysis of satellite images of all the cities of the Gaza Strip testifies that Israel used the “suburb doctrine,” which is the use of disproportionate armed force, similar to the one it used with Hezbollah in the summer of 2006, by destroying the southern suburbs of Beirut. .
Le Monde believed that unleashing firepower in Gaza led to the abolition of the distinction between civilian and military targets, and the Israeli army places responsibility on the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) for intertwining its infrastructure with the urban fabric of the Gaza Strip, which is one of the areas with the highest population density in the world.
Colonel Yogev Bar Sheshet, the official in the Civil Administration - which is in fact military - for the Palestinian territories, said on November 4, “They have no future... Whoever returns here, if he returns at all, will find scorched earth. No homes, no Agriculture and nothing.
Under siege
The testimonies published by Le Monde indicate the scorched earth formula. The Israeli army targets memory by desecrating Gaza’s cemeteries on a large scale. It also targets the future, specifically, by destroying universities and hundreds of schools in the Strip. The United Nations estimated that 90% of the population suffered “damage.” "Serious."
The destruction does not stop there - as the newspaper says - as satellite images show the damage caused by Israeli army operations to agricultural lands, which have become threatened by the creation of a buffer zone along the Israeli border.
The frustration expressed by Israel's Western allies over the difficulties in getting food aid to a famine-threatened area that Israel created from scratch portends the battle that must be fought after the fighting ends to rebuild Gaza, which risks remaining under siege.
The newspaper concluded that food drops carried out by the United States and other countries in an attempt to respond to the emergency should only be viewed as evidence of an inability to confront Israeli intransigence or a lack of will to intervene at all.
Source: Le Monde