As Gaza’s traumatised and grieving Palestinians continue to suffer Israel’s daily bombing and the collapse of food and medical supplies, the aim of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu is clear.
His government wants to clear the area of its population, whom it plans to replace with Jewish settlers. Gazans will first be herded into a grossly overcrowded area in the south-west of the Gaza Strip, close to the Egyptian border, and held in appalling conditions. From there, they will somehow be forced to move to a third country, although how that will be done in the face of Egypt’s opposition is glossed over.
Life across Palestine’s occupied West Bank will simultaneously become more difficult, with further Jewish settlements and aggressive policing intending to push Palestinians to move to Jordan and beyond.
