Beginning last November, an Israeli soldier and members of his reserve unit worked day after day in a northern section of the Gaza Strip to create a wasteland.

Their orders were to clear a 1-kilometer-wide area along the border, the soldier said, as part of an Israeli plan to construct a security zone just inside Gaza—to which Palestinians would be barred entry.

A kilometer-wide zone likely wouldn’t prevent future rocket launches or drone attacks from within Gaza by Hamas fighters and other militants who survive the war, analysts said.

Shaul Arieli, a former Israeli colonel who served in Israel’s Gaza division and is now an expert on Israeli borders, said the creation of a permanent buffer zone inside Gaza likely would be illegal under international law because Israel would be assuming control of land beyond its recognized territory and, as an occupying power, would be prohibited from altering boundaries.

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    And this is why we’ve seen article about migrant laborers from India “risking their lives” in Israel…

    Israel doesn’t have shit to rebuild on their side of the border, the migrants are to build in Gaza, land that Israel will say they have to seize for some bullshit reason.

    And it looks like this is the bullshit reason

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      9 months ago

      Don’t forget about how an international coalition has to pay to fix what the fucking Israelis broke in their pogrom