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Sun 01 Feb 2026 9:40 am - Jerusalem Time

Displacement Raids!

Dr. Ibrahim Melhem

Editor-in-Chief

The Least Said

On the eve of the announcement of the opening of the Rafah crossing and the return of the technocrat committee to administer the Strip, along with thousands dreaming of returning to the ruins of their homes, the bloody raids came as a barrier of fire and destruction. The raids targeting tents and educational centers were nothing but sharp, bloody messages, forcing the displaced to pack their bags in a one-way, irreversible direction and warning returnees of the consequences of returning to the scorched earth.
The displaced, who had arranged the remnants of their dreams in bundles awaiting zero hour, found that this grim moment was nothing but a new death toll.
This is the "black scenario" that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi warned against; the Egyptian stance, which insisted on opening the crossing as a two-way lifeline, clashes with an Israeli desire to turn it into a "one-way exit gate."
The absence of the usual "target list" of faction leaders in these raids exposes the true purpose; the target is the Gazan human being himself, and the goal is to "Lebanonize" the Strip and turn it into an uninhabitable area, to block any civilian administration (technocrats) from trying to mend the wounds, and to keep Netanyahu brandishing his sword over the muzzle of the "Merkava," to ensure his ascent in the upcoming elections over the bodies of Gaza's children and women.
The raids are not random, but rather "demographic engineering by fire"; to operate centrifugal machines to empty specific areas of the slaughtered Strip to ensure the instability of the "technocrat committee" in an inhabited environment.
It is a battle of wills on the edge of the crossing open to all painful scenarios; while our afflicted people cling to the keys of their destroyed homes, the occupation tries to turn these keys into a memory in a travel bag, and a one-way exit gate.


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