[News] Satellite images reveal Israel building new land corridor inside Gaza: Report

[Anti-Imperialist News]

 Satellite images reveal Israel building new land corridor inside Gaza:
Report

The new corridor is located east of Gaza City and serves as further
indication of Tel Aviv’s plans for a permanent presence in the strip

News Desk <https://thecradle.co/authors/news-desk-9>

AUG 21, 2024 -
https://thecradle.co/articles/satellite-images-reveal-israel-building-new-land-corridor-inside-gaza-report
(Photo credit: Jack Guez/AFP)

Satellite imagery
<https://preview.forensic-architecture.org/investigation/ecocide-in-gaza>
analyzed by the Forensic Architecture research group reveals the building
of a new Israeli army land corridor east of Gaza City in the northern strip
since November.

“Our analysis of satellite imagery from November 2023 through July 2024
reveals evidence of a new Israeli military corridor east of Gaza City,”
Forensic Architecture wrote on 20 August in an update to a report from
March.

“This new corridor constitutes the second Israeli-built east–west passage
through Gaza, after the so-called ‘Netzarim Corridor.’ Together, these
corridors are infrastructural indications of an intended permanent Israeli
military presence in the northern parts of the occupied Gaza Strip,” the
research group added.

The Netzarim corridor was established by Israeli forces during the early
months of the war on Gaza.

The corridor, which runs through the former grounds of the old Netzarim
settlement, splits the strip in two and prevents the return of displaced
Palestinians to northern Gaza.

Israeli defense officials who spoke with the *Wall Street Journal* (WSJ) in
February said <https://thecradle.co/articles-id/23539>the corridor is part
of Tel Aviv's “plans to maintain security control over the enclave for some
time.”

The Netzarim corridor is linked to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
conditions in ceasefire talks <https://thecradle.co/articles-id/26506> that
displaced civilians returning to the northern strip must be subjected to a
screening and inspection mechanism.

Netanyahu said on 20 August that Israel refuses any withdrawal from the
Netzarim corridor, as well as the Philadelphi corridor on the Gaza–Egypt
border, seized by Israeli troops in May. His comments cast further doubt on
the possibility of reaching a ceasefire agreement to end the war, which has
devastated the Gaza Strip and killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.

The Philadelphi corridor has for years been a lifeline to the Palestinian
resistance and the people of Gaza. Israel wants a permanent presence there
to stifle weapons smuggling through the corridor into Gaza.

The new corridor east of Gaza City is located near the town of Beit Hanoun,
according to Forensic Architecture.

Farms and orchards belonging to the displaced Abu Suffiyeh family, as well
as homes, have been cleared out by Israeli forces for the establishment of
this new corridor, which began in November. The road provides Israel with
direct access to Gaza City.

Netanyahu confirmed in November that Israel plans
<https://thecradle.co/articles-id/11918> an “indefinite” military and
security presence in Gaza.

This indefinite presence is also part of Netanyahu
<https://thecradle.co/articles-id/23576>’s “day-after” plan for the strip.
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