Martyr Brigadier General Faiq Al-Mabhouh (communication sites)

The American website "Mondoweiss" published a report in which it said that many question marks were raised about the reason for the Israeli occupation army's storming of Al-Shifa Hospital for the fourth time since October, amid the deployment of tanks and heavy gunfire that caused the death and injury of dozens of civilians.

The website added that few observers knew that the successful delivery of food aid to the northern Gaza Strip was what prompted the Israeli army to launch its deadly raid on Al-Shifa Hospital the next day.

The website explained that the relationship between these two events can only be explained by understanding who Israel was targeting, namely the martyr Faiq al-Mabhouh.

The website reported that Al-Mabhouh was the director of operations in the Gaza Police Force, which is part of the Civil Administration of the Gaza government.

Public action

Unlike the Al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) - Al-Mabhouh was not working secretly at the beginning of the war, because he was not obliged to do so, as he was responsible for enforcing civil law, and Hamas issued a statement after his killing confirming that “he was He carries out a purely civil and humanitarian activity.”

The website added that Israeli military spokesmen and Israeli media stated that Israel launched a “precise operation” on Al-Shifa Hospital to target “a senior Hamas operative” or “a senior Hamas leader,” who the army claimed was planning attacks on Israel.

He said that making such “brazen claims” without evidence justifying attacks on hospitals and shelters was a hallmark of the Israeli army’s behavior throughout its attack on Gaza, but the real significance of the attack did not lie in its desire to empty the largest civilian shelter in northern Gaza, which houses 30,000 people. Rather, it was to thwart the pivotal role that Faiq al-Mabhouh was playing in coordinating the delivery of humanitarian aid to starving civilians in Gaza while restoring a semblance of social order in the north.

In other words, the attack on Al-Shifa Hospital was an assassination aimed at destabilizing the civil order in northern Gaza. Its goal was to facilitate the Israeli genocidal project and pave the way for complete control of the region without resistance, according to the website.

Intelligence leak

Mondoweis noted that the events of the past few days reveal Israel's intentions to engineer famine and contribute to social collapse, which confirms once again that this is not only a war against the Gaza resistance, but also against its people.

The website reported that available information confirms that Al-Mabhouh was the one who organized the delivery of the aid convoy to northern Gaza, in coordination with the tribes, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA), and international organizations.

He said that this coordination certainly required meeting with officials from those groups. One widely circulated speculation is that it was in those meetings that Mabhouh's location was revealed and was supposedly leaked to Israeli intelligence, most likely through one of those international organizations, according to Mondoweiss.

Haaretz newspaper reported that this intelligence leak may explain Israel's haste to launch an immediate operation in the medical complex.

According to Axios, the Biden administration asked Israel last February to stop targeting members of the civilian police force escorting aid trucks in Gaza, warning that the complete collapse of law and order would significantly worsen the humanitarian crisis.

Famine engineering

The site stated that Israel never stopped targeting them, and even went further by targeting hundreds of civilians searching for food. This context explains why the police force appeared to have gone underground and why the gunmen accompanying the convoy were masked. This also explains why the general narrative around aid distribution is that it was organized by clans.

Mondoweis reported that the mention of tribes is not incidental here, as one of the most important aspects of Israel's supposed "day after" scenario in Gaza is that daily activities will be managed by local families and tribes.

Some tribes used to have greater influence in the coastal sector before Hamas came to power in 2007, and some of their members were acting as outlaw gangs involved in criminal activities, according to Mondoweiss.

The website explained that Hamas significantly reduced the role of these tribes during its rule of the Strip, but during the recent genocidal war, some of these families took advantage of the chaos to seize aid convoys and store food aid or sell it on the black market.

The website indicated that Israel not only welcomed this development, but also actively encouraged the state of chaos. Its continued targeting of police escorts in Gaza has only served to reinforce this phenomenon. At about the same time, Israeli officials began to float the idea of ​​tribal rule in Gaza after the war.

Source: American press