Gaza (Quds News Network)- A discussion is underway regarding solutions that will impose a kind of “civilian administration” in Gaza under “Israeli aegis” and create supervised “closed communities,” which Palestinian civilians will be allowed to enter in the future in northern Gaza, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
In the analysis article published by Haaretz on Friday, Amos Harel, a military correspondent and defence analyst for Haaretz and one of Israel’s leading media experts on military and defense issues, said there is talk of establishing four logistics centers on the Gaza shore, from which humanitarian aid will be distributed via civilian contractors under Israeli supervision.
Israel is also preparing the ground for a new operation there, after Jabalia, in the likely case that the talks for a prison exchange deal collapse again, according to the article.
“Southern Command is pushing for this, particularly its planning team. Many of the personnel there, and in the reserve division, are working according to clear Hardali (Haredi nationalist) ideology. As they see it, a window of opportunity beckons not only to vanquish Hamas but to reestablish settlements in the Gaza Strip and to block any future withdrawal.”
According to Haaretz, in Jabalia and the towns of the northern Strip, an idea is under examination to create supervised “closed communities,” which Palestinian civilians will be allowed to enter in the future, though they will have to live in tents. The Israeli military will control the exits and entrances of these areas.
In the southern Gaza, a plan exists to integrate into governance two local clans, most of whose sources of income are “criminal.” A discussion is taking place about whether individuals connected to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Fatah should be made part of these bodies, above the clans.
What’s clear, Haaretz said, is that all of this will happen only after further destruction of the cityscape, the forced removal of the residents and the killing of Palestinian fighters.
“What will ostensibly have to be done in the whole area north of the Gaza Stream, namely the Netzarim Corridor: massive obliteration of the infrastructure above and below the ground. Only afterward will it be possible to talk about the return of the inhabitants.”