Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh believes that Israel wants to control Gaza’s border with Egypt and take full responsibility for the security of the sector. This was reported by RIA News.
Citing sources in Israel, the journalist claims that Gaza is planned to be controlled like the areas of the West Bank where Jerusalem is responsible for security. Hersh emphasized that the Israeli side plans to control the passage of people from Gaza and the Egyptian border, which was previously monitored by Cairo.
Hersh’s source claims that Israel’s main goal in this situation is to control smuggling into Gaza, but this should not be done by the residents of the strip.
Before this, Egyptian officials knowledgeable Israel said the Palestinian Hamas movement will release some hostages captured in the October 7 attack on the Jewish state in the coming days.
The situation in the Middle East escalated after thousands of Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, when Hamas announced the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The aim of Israel’s response to Operation Iron Sword was to repel the attack, release more than 200 hostages, including foreigners, and destroy Hamas. In order to achieve this goal, Israel launched major rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip from the first day of the operation. At the same time, the Israeli National Security Council decided to stop the supply of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the sector. Humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza began to be sent through the Rafah checkpoint only after October 20, and it was stated that their volume was insufficient.
27 October Israel announced About the “expansion” of the ground operation in Gaza. It is not known exactly when the operation started, but before the operation, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes and moved to shelters and the south of the region. As part of the Israeli army’s ground operation on 5 November surrounded Gaza city and supplies cut off, still exists in central Gaza to continue fights.
Formerly political scientist named One of the reasons why the Palestinian-Israeli conflict flares up.
Source: Gazeta
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