The occupation of the Gaza Strip

The colony's war on the Gaza Strip will not stop, and the deal will not be concluded, because its results are not yet clear. The Israeli has failed and has not yet been defeated, and the Palestinian has held out but has not yet won. Victory and defeat for one at the expense of the other depends on: 1- A ceasefire, 2- A prisoner exchange, 3- A withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. This will not happen within the current foreseeable data, because if these factors are achieved, this means a defeat for the colony and a victory for Palestine. Netanyahu will not do this, accept it, or be satisfied with it, because in doing so he will be accepting his defeat, the defeat of his governmental party coalition, and the defeat of the colony. For this reason, he is putting obstacles and conditions in place to avoid pressure to cease fire and exchange prisoners, whether from the families of Israeli prisoners, or from the army and security services, or from the United States, which provides him with all the elements of survival and continuity, and does not accept defeat for him.

So the battle, the war and the Israeli attack will continue, and its conditions are to remain in the Gaza Strip, especially on the Palestinian-Egyptian border strip called the “Philadelphi” axis, or on the Gaza Valley axis called “Netzarim” which separates the Strip into two halves, the northern one adjacent to the borders of the 1948 territories and the southern one adjacent to the Egyptian border.

The program and option of the colony is to remain in the Gaza Strip, and for its forces and occupation to remain, similar to what is in place in the West Bank. This is agreed upon by the parties of the government coalition, with a disagreement with the more extreme parties, Ben Gvir and Smotrich, who demand the return of colonial settlement and colonial settlers, with the reconstruction and revival of the settlements and colonies in the Gaza Strip.

Officer Elad Goren was appointed by the occupation army to be a full-time employee in the sector, after serving in the headquarters for coordinating government operations in the West Bank. He was transferred to the sector to occupy the position of civil work manager, equivalent to the tasks he was performing in the civil administration in the West Bank. This means remaining and continuing to manage the Gaza Strip by the occupation army. This is a procedure that indicates that the colony’s plans are to maintain control and annex the Gaza Strip to the Israeli plans for expansion and colonization, especially since the Netanyahu coalition government does not have in its calculations or program to reach any settlement with the Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank. Here it is adding the Gaza Strip to its expansionist security occupation program. For them, Jerusalem is the unified capital of the colony, and the West Bank is not Palestinian, not Arab, not occupied, but rather Judea and Samaria, i.e. part of their colony’s map.

The appointment of the "Civil Administration Officer" is a qualitative leap in coordination and liaison. A senior security official described this appointment to Yedioth Ahronoth as: "It is not a temporary project. This is a role that will be with us in the coming years. Anyone who believes that Israeli security control of the Gaza Strip will end soon, with or without fighting, with or without a swap deal, is mistaken."

The Israeli security official says this in summary, as he explains Netanyahu’s tricks and his evasion of accepting any ceasefire deal or prisoner exchange. Rather, his evasion and the placing of obstacles aim to keep his forces and his occupation of the Gaza Strip.

Netanyahu's coalition government does not have in its calculations or program to reach any settlement with the Palestinians, in Jerusalem and the West Bank, and now it is adding the Gaza Strip to its expansionist, occupation, and security program.