'Surrender or starve': Attack on Jabalia hints at controversial Israeli plan for northern Gaza
'Surrender or starve': Attack on Jabalia hints at controversial Israeli plan for northern Gaza
Palestinians and aid groups suspect Israel is gradually adopting a new tactic known as the "Generals’ Plan", writes Jeremy Bowen.
Excerpts w/emphasis added:
“Since we already encircled the northern part of Gaza in the past nine or 10 months, what we should do is the following thing to tell all the 300,000 residents [that the UN estimates is 400,000] who still live in the northern part of Gaza that they have to leave this area and they should be given 10 days to leave through safe corridors that Israel will provide.
"And after that time, all this area will become to be a military zone. And all the Hamas people will still, though, whether some of them are fighters, some of them are civilians… will have two choices either to surrender or to starve."
Eiland wants Israel to seal the areas once the evacuation corridors are closed. Anyone left behind would be treated as an enemy combatant. The area would be under siege, with the army blocking all supplies of food, water or other necessities of life from going in.
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It is not clear whether the IDF has adopted the Generals' Plan in part or in full, but the circumstantial evidence of what is being done in Gaza suggests it is at the very least a strong influence on the tactics being used against the population. The BBC submitted a list of questions to the IDF, which were not answered.
The ultra-nationalist extremists in Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet want to replace Palestinians in northern Gaza with Jewish settlers. Among many statements he’s made on the subject, the finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has said “Our heroic fighters and soldiers are destroying the evil of Hamas, and we will occupy the Gaza Strip… to tell the truth, where there is no settlement, there is no security.”
Fucked up and stunningly pathetic that acts of genocide are treated as "controversial", what is there controversy over?
Israel is commiting a genocide, the evidence is horrifically clear. There is zero controversy over this among serious people.
Agreed.
This plan is forced displacement, ethnic cleansing, and annexation via mass extermination.
This is horrifying. And it cuts both ways: these generals are drowning what is left of Israel's credibility, international goodwill, and social fabric. They're killing two countries.
It‘s white people committing the crimes so they‘re up for debate.
White people are the most moral people on earth :)
The last White Colonialist Nation in the World, no less.
No wonder countries like the US, Germany and Britain love them and send them weapons "to defend themselves from the savages".
If the world continues to do nothing, we will have to tell our children what Palestine was. The IDF can and, if uninterrupted, will literally slaughter the entirety of Gaza.
That's Israel's dream. A full ethnic cleansing.
As long as the US "Fully, fully, fully, supportive of Israel" nothing can be done internationally.
Those who never left and watched their fellow Gazans get shot and bombed in the "safe" corridors will probably not choose to move. And of course the IDF doesn't accept surrenders considering they shot their own hostages.
Imagine your final ethical dilemma in life is to choose whether to die of starvation or see how far you can run from a hailstorm of AGMs, Shelling, Missiles, and gunfire.
Reminds me of the video of those 3 teenagers slowly walking amongst the rubble only for an entire guided rocket to be dropped on them. The one in the front miraculously survived the blast and kept walking for another few yards before he was bombed too.
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Ah yes, we should make sure whenever we discuss Israeli atrocities that we explain why they are justified in doing what they do to the people whose land they stole and continue to steal. It’s purely reasonable self defense by innocents, don’t ya know!
I know sarcasm but this might actually not be a bad idea. Throw a couple of paragraphs of historical facts in those stories for people to really get the context. Like how many articles and discussions state what happened on Oct 7 before they start talking about anything related afterwards. A brief list of major historical events along with some numbers on casualties.
why they are justified in defending themselves from people refusing to return their stolen land in defiance of a UN mandate.
FTFY
Wow this tool does not look great, it highlights "surrender or starve" and "great force" as misleading information when they're direct quotes.
The rest of the "analysis" isn't much better. It seems like someone has let an LLM do things it can't.
This tool is like a piece of dark comedy.
It's like someone made a robot of Jonathan Greenblatt.
Beep! Booop! This article is describing direct genocidal intent expressed by Israeli commanders! Calculating false information... 100%: if this information were true, it would mean Israel is committing genocide, which cannot be. Calculating bias: 100%: a reasonable observer would conclude Israel is the aggressor and Palestinian civilians are clearly their victims, which is an uncomplicated premise and cannot be! Antisemitism confirmed! (Initiating drone strike....)
Better summary: The IDF is making efforts to get civilian out of a combat area. Hamas is trying to keep them there as human shields.
The ominous sounding "General's Plan" is to cut an enemy force from supplies. Which is a valid and legal military strategy, and one that's used in basically every war. Note the key part of the plan to move civilians from the area so it's only enemy forces that are cut off from supply.
And we really don't know if that strategy is even being employed. Israel nearly always warns civilians to leave areas where there are significant combat operations planned. Why would this particular warning indicate anything beyond that? There's a lot of civilians there, and there's Hamas there. All we know is that the IDF wants to attack Hamas in some way without there being civilians in the area.
So it's just a rumour the BBC is spreading in this article in an effort to appear "balanced". If they simply reported the facts that the IDF is trying to get civilians out of a combat area, it might sound like they're saying that the IDF is doing something good. Can't have that! Gotta put something in there for the ghouls that are still upset that the Gaza famine they were hoping for didn't actually happen.
Really it may not even be feasible to cut the enemy off from supply in an urban combat scenario. We really don't know how much food Hamas have stockpiled (while also pushing claims that Israel was trying to starve Palestinians). But it's understandable that a military might try to think of ways to accomplish this given the whole "cut the enemy off from supplies" is basically the default strategy in any military operation.
Which is a valid and legal military strategy
Spoiler alert. It isn't. You have no idea what you're talking about. They aren't interdicting military supply convoys or shelling artillery depots. You absolutely cannot cut food off from civilians. It doesn't matter if they don't want to move. You have to let the food go through.
And we really don't know if that strategy is even being employed
Yes we do. USAID let the cat out of the bag.
I understand you dearly want Israel to be a lawful liberal democracy. But it just isn't.
(Short excerpt of the long section clarifying that it’s a war crime)
They are moving civilians out of the area. You seemingly are missing that part. So no, they are not cutting off food from civilians.
The USAID officials wrote that because of Israel’s behavior, the U.S. should pause additional arms sales to the country.
Yeah that's not for USAID to decide, and any report where an agency is overstepping it's purview is suspect. If they're pushing for a policy change beyond the scope of their department, then they can't really be trusted to not fudge things to try to influence things further. They're behaving unprofessionally to gain power they aren't supposed to have and you can't trust them to behave professionally when gathering information.
This guy is calling international war crimes as "a valid and legal military strategy".
Expelling 400k people might be spinned as "getting civilians out of a combat area" if Israel were not a state that systematically settles conquered land (to the tune of 700k settlers in the West Bank) and if its government didn't have ministers (on whom the ruling coalition depends to stay in power) that are explicitly saying that they want to do exactly this again.
Like, bro, who the fuck do you think is reading these things you write? Umpa Loompas from Jupiter?
Honestly, it's like a well known organ trafficker is saying trust me bro, I'm putting you in this ice bath and giving you this sedative and prepping these surgery tools because I'm trying to remove a tumor from next to your kidneys.
Better summary: The IDF is making efforts to get civilian out of a combat area. Hamas is trying to keep them there as human shields.
I don't even think Alex Jones could misinterpret the news this badly. At some point isn't misinterpreting the same as spreading misinformation?