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No Arab government will partner with Netanyahu over Gaza, says Hamas
Prime Minister Netanyahu has said he doesn’t want Israel to govern Gaza, but rather to hand it over to an unspecified third party that will not threaten Israel.
When asked about those remarks, senior Hamas leader Osama Hamdan said no Arab government will now want to partner with Israel due to its relentless and deadly war on Gaza.
Potential occupation triggers panic among Gaza City residents who remember life before 2005
Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza City has not yet translated into practice on the ground, maybe as Israel is still preparing to launch this wide-scale military incursion into the central areas of Gaza City.
The occupation will completely shift the daily life here from destruction and hardship to full domination.
People are expecting that we will see military checkpoints, we will see Israeli tanks inside the heart of the city, and the residents will have to ask for Israeli military permission to fetch food and water.
The potential occupation triggers a huge deal of fear and panic among people here because they know what life under occupation looks like.
I remember the situation before 2005, before unilateral Israeli withdrawal from the territory. There were constant home raids and arrests, similar to what is taking place in the occupied West Bank.
Turmoil expected in Israel amid Gaza strategy backlash and economic woes
Israeli political analyst Akiva Eldar says Netanyahu’s plan to occupy Gaza City will throw his country into further turmoil.
“You will see in the next few days, hundreds of thousands of Israelis in the streets demonstrating against it. You will see more and more soldiers, reservists, refusing to be drafted, while we are also witnessing the Orthodox community blocking the roads,” Eldar told Al Jazeera.
“What we see now in Israel is complete chaos, both economically, militarily and socially,” he said, adding that there is a growing sense of frustration also within the military establishment since there is no clear exit strategy from Gaza.
“There is no chance to bring the captives alive back to their families, more Israelis will be killed and many Israelis are calling to stop the war [because] it’s immoral,” Eldar said. “It’s immoral, the starvation, it’s immoral to make more war crimes after so long and after so many war crimes that Israel has been doing in Gaza.”
