cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/5420798
Paywall: https://archive.is/Lmry2
Israeli officials have signaled they do not intend to relinquish this territory. These areas, where the military has deployed, are considered “no-go zones” and Palestinians risk being shot if they approach.
They can starve the population and take the area anyway so why continue fighting and gaining more and more bad press and investigation. Instead they’ll spend that time covering up their crimes and hiding the people they would have a hard time protecting for the moment.
So why not just take all of it? The world isn’t gonna do shit about it, so why bother with the splitting of Gaza up into unmanageable little chunks?
They’re much more manageable and Israel uses Palestinians as cheap labor, they’re keeping enough around to do the shitty jobs while they find anyone else willing to do it before they absorb the rest.
Maybe they are playing for gazans to finally ask for Gaza to be absorbed by Israel so they can claim it wasn’t genocide?