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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Israeli soldiers “changed speed” in Gaza, dividing and grabbing more parts of the strip, according to observers, this could mean that Israel establishing deeper and longer -term control in the territory.
Israel says that he will increase his campaign against Hamas in Gaza until he accepts revised ceasefire conditions, the Minister of Defense promising to seize “large areas” of the strip. Gaza saw an intense bombing campaign, the Ministry of Health of the territory claiming that at least 100 people had been killed in the space of 24 hours, bringing the total number of the dead to 1,163 since Israel has renewed its military operations in the strip on March 18.
We still do not know how much Israel lands is ready to grasp or if a permanent annexation is considered, but Netanyahu has given some clues, in particular saying that his troops would tear control over another key earth strip.
“Last night, in the Gaza Strip, we changed speed. The FDI (Israeli Defense Forces) entered the territory, hitting the terrorists and destroying the infrastructure,” Netanyahu said in a video speech on Wednesday.
“We now divide the band and increase the pressure step by step, so that they give us our hostages. And as long as they do not give them to us, the pressure will increase until they do it. ”
“We are also doing something else: we seize the Morag corridor. It will be the second Philadelphi, an additional Philadelphi corridor,” he added.
The Morag corridor refers to the colony of Morag which was once between the cities of Khan Younis and Rafah in the south of Gaza. The Philadelphi corridor is a 14-kilometer (8.7 mile) field of land in the south of Gaza along the border with Egypt, which Israel had also seized and continues to occupy as a major bonding in the cease-fire negotiations.
A historic route connecting the Sufa de Gaza to the old colony of Morag, the Morag corridor could become a line of demarcation between Khan Younis and Rafah if it were seized by Israeli forces, experts said on Wednesday in CNN.
Gisha, an Israeli human rights organization which focuses on the freedom of movement of the Palestinians, says that before the current operation, Israel had already extended its control of a buffer area along the edges of the enclave, covering almost 52 square kilometers along the whole perimeter of the band, or 17% of its total zone.
Colonel (RES) Grisha Yakubovich, former chief of the civil department for the coordination of government activities in the territories (COGAT) compared the movement – which also follows a certain number of evacuation orders for the Palestinians – to the forces of the Israeli forces of a “buffer zone” in the north of Gaza, where the troops erased Hamas and established the security of the guarantee of the guarantee.
In the south, he told CNN that the FDI could seek to evacuate the population of Rafah and extend a southern buffer zone. The holding of these border areas puts pressure on Hamas while protecting the Israeli communities, Yakubovich said.
Major-General (res.) Eitan Dangot, former coordinator of government activities in the Palestinian territories (COGAT), has hypothesized that the seizure of the Morag corridor could be the start of the Gaza division in three large sections for greater control.
“This means that Israel or the FDI is going through a very clear process in order to keep the areas under control closed by the military forces which prevent movements from one area to another,” he said.
“There will be total traffic control which will be allowed to enter and cross.
Focusing on the Morag corridor is also “a kind of political decision in order to give the government’s right-wing extremists, a kind of hope that we may be back in certain areas (colonies) as before,” added Dangot. “When you say” Morag “aloud, it means to come back to the disengagement of Gush Katif.”
Gush Katif was a block of several Israeli colonies, including the agricultural colony of Morag, in the Gaza Strip in the South. When Israel disengaged from the Gaza Strip in 2005, the Minister of the Prime at the time, Ariel Sharon, dismantled Gush Katif and expelled some 8,000 Jewish residents who live there.
Some Israeli colonists have since called for a return to Gush Katif and the resettlement of Gaza, a movement embraced by Israeli politicians who openly called for the expulsion of the Palestinians of Gaza.
Gaza’s fragile ceasefire was broken on March 18, while Israel made fatal strikes across the enclave and Netanyahu promised to use the “increasing military force” against Hamas until the release of all hostages.
Hosting talks are at a standstill, Hamas rejecting Israel’s last proposal for a temporary cease-fire in Gaza who would have seen a 40-day truce in exchange for the publication of 11 hostages, itself a counterpoppea to an Egyptian offer from Hamas.
A total of 24 living hostages would be in Gaza and the bodies of 35 deceased hostages would always be held in the enclave.
After the first phase of the agreement ended in early March, Israel said that it would block all the assistance to Gaza until Hamas accepts a new extension supported by the United States of the ceasefire. Hamas – who wants to see the total withdrawal of Israeli Gaza troops – rejected the plan, accusing Israel of denying the commitments made during the initial discussions on the truce.
Israel has resumed military operations on a large scale shortly after – and the mediators find it difficult to relaunch negotiations.
Israel launched a war against Hamas in Gaza on October 7, 2023, following the surprise attack of the militant group against southern Israel which killed 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and took 251 hostages, according to Israeli authorities.
The war has killed more than 50,000 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7, 2023, according to the Ministry of Health of the territory.