[News] Israeli troops bombard, besiege northern Gaza as 'generals' plan' unfolds

[Anti-Imperialist News]

 Israeli troops bombard, besiege northern Gaza as 'generals' plan' unfolds

Israel issued evacuation orders for all of northern Gaza overnight in an
effort to complete the ethnic cleansing of the remaining 300,000 civilians
there

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

OCT 6, 2024 -
https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-troops-bombard-besiege-northern-gaza-as-generals-plan-unfolds
IDF troops operate in northern Gaza's Jabaliya, in a handout photo
published May 31, 2024. (Photo credit: Israel Defense Forces)

The Israeli military is carrying out a major military operation in Jabalia
camp in Gaza as part of a broader operation to forcibly expel the remaining
300,000 Palestinians in northern Gaza to so-called humanitarian zones in
the south of the enclave.

The Israeli military said
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-launches-new-ground-op-in-north-gazas-jabaliya-to-foil-hamas-efforts-to-regroup/>
troops from the 162nd Division’s 401st and 460th armored brigades encircled
Jabalia camp overnight and were operating in the area “following
intelligence on Hamas operatives and infrastructure, alongside efforts by
the terror group to regroup there.”

The siege on Jabalia follows a night of heavy Israeli airstrikes and
artillery shelling on northern and central Gaza, killing dozens, including
a strike on a mosque sheltering displaced people in Deir al-Balah early
Sunday that killed at least 19 people, Palestinian officials said
<https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/apparent-israeli-airstrike-mosque-central-gaza-kills-18-114536057>
.
The overnight bombing and shelling was likened by residents to the bombing
carried out at the start of the war on Gaza.

Israel claimed the strikes targeted dozens of Hamas sites in Jabalia,
including weapon depots, tunnels, cells of operatives, and other
infrastructure.

“The operation will continue as long as necessary while systematically
striking and thoroughly destroying the terror infrastructure in the area,”
the Israeli military said.

The operation marked the fourth invasion of Jabalia by the army since the
start of the war a year ago.

Amid the invasion and siege of Jabalia, the army issued evacuation orders
to civilians from the entire north of Gaza, including Gaza City, telling
them to flee south to the so-called humanitarian zone of Al-Muwasi near
Khan Yunis.

The army demanded that Palestinians evacuate on the two main roads leading
south, Salahuddin Street in the center of the strip and Rashid Road on the
coast.

Some 300,000 Palestinians remain in Gaza’s north and have refused
<https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-gaza-north-civilians-ordered-evacuate-south>
to obey multiple Israeli orders to abandon their homes in over a year of
war.

Ministry of Interior and National Security in the Gaza Strip issued a
statement Sunday telling Palestinians in north Gaza not to obey Israeli
threats and to move to the nearest neighboring residential area until the
danger has passed so they can return to their homes as soon as possible.

“We affirm the falsehood of the occupation’s claims regarding the existence
of safe areas in the southern Gaza Strip, as all governorates of the Strip
are under attack, and the occupation is committing crimes and massacres
against citizens in all areas without exception, including the tents of the
displaced,” the statement said.

Israel’s latest push to empty northern Gaza appears to be an effort to
ethnically cleanse northern Gaza and starve anyone, including civilians and
Hamas fighters, remaining by imposing a total siege on the area.

On 23 September, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said
<https://thecradle.co/articles-id/26972> that he was considering the
so-called “generals’ plan” to lay total siege to northern Gaza and expel
all its Palestinian residents.

When retired major general Giora Eiland presented the plan one week before,
he claimed it would “change the reality” on the ground in Gaza.

“We have to tell the residents of north Gaza that they have one week to
evacuate the territory, which then becomes a military zone, [a zone] in
which every figure is a target and, most importantly, no supplies enter
this territory.”

The remaining civilians and Hamas fighters would then be forced to
surrender or starve, according to the plan.

Eiland was the former director of the National Security Council and former
head of the Planning Department of the Israel Defense Forces.

Israel’s religious settler movement seeks to empty northern Gaza of its
residents and destroy their homes so that Jewish Israelis can establish
settlements in their place.

In May, a coalition of Israeli settler groups enjoying government funding
held a conference
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231218-as-genocide-unfolds-israel-settlers-plan-dream-beach-house-in-gaza/>
to discuss a “practical” plan to build the first Jewish settlements in Gaza.

Harey Zahav, an Israeli real estate firm notorious for constructing illegal
settlements in the Occupied West Bank, unveiled a plan for building homes
for Jewish settlers in Gaza. “A house on the beach is not a dream!” the
firm’s advertisement stated.

Israel's genocide on Palestinians in Gaza since 7 October last year has
killed 41,870 people, the majority women and children, according to the
health ministry. Other estimates
<https://truthout.org/articles/us-health-workers-back-from-gaza-estimate-death-toll-is-at-least-119000/>
are much higher.
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