WHAT FUTURE FOR GAZA?

Israel continues to savagely bombard the north and south of Gaza, causing casualties among the population and civilians and destroying what remains of the territory. It is useless for the UN, the Security Council, the United States, the European Union and other countries to demand that civilians be protected. Netanyahu and Yael Gallant mock them all.

The Gaza war will go down in history as a unique case of Western impotence. In March 1999, NATO bombed Serbia even though the Security Council did not approve that action due to vetoes by Russia and China. NATO made its decision to guarantee the independence of Kosovo. The bombings forced Belgrade to withdraw all its military forces from the majority Albanian enclave. NATO stated that it was a “humanitarian operation.”

But who dares to carry out such a humanitarian operation in Israel. Nobody, of course. Netanyahu's government is untouchable; ignores all the resolutions of the UN and its Security Council. The US criticizes human rights violations by the Jewish state, but it continues bombing Gaza and preparing its invasion of Rafah.

This is the sad reality of this war, initiated, it is true, by the terrorist attack committed in Israel by Hamas with a balance of some 1,200 murders of Jews. In Gaza, more than 35,000 Palestinian civilians have died to date.

The attorney general of the International Court of Justice, Karim Kham, has asked that Court to issue an arrest warrant against Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yal Gallant for “crimes against humanity.” The same sanction has been requested. against the political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh; the head of the “Al Qasem” Brigades, Mohamed Deif, and the head of the radical group in Gaza, Yahya Sinwa.

Netanyahu has rejected the accusation, recalling that Israel is not a signatory to the Rome treaty that gave birth to the ICJ. Hamas, for its part, has regretted that this body “places those who commit genocide and those who defend their people in the same position.”

All that rhetoric will be of no use. Israel counts the days it has left to invade Rafah. While Netanyahu, Gallant and the opposition, Benny Gantz, throw pots at each other for not reaching an agreement on the future of Gaza, when the war ends,

The Israelis agree that Gaza should not be ruled by the Palestinians again, which is an obvious aberration. “Gaza must be governed by the Palestinians,” President Joe Biden has said time and again, but once again Netanyahu is laughing over his head.

Netanyahu intends for Gaza to be a colony of Israel administered by Jewish civilians and military. This would facilitate the annexation of the territory. Gantz, for his part, has given Netanyahu 3 weeks to accept his own plan consisting of an administration of the territory made up of Americans, Europeans, Arabs and Palestinians, which would deal only with civil affairs.

Gantz believes it is possible that over an indefinite period of time this administration could lay the foundations of a Palestinian government, provided that Mahmoud Abbas, current president of the Palestinian National Authority, does not appear in it; and of course neither the smallest representative of the “terrorist groups” that are still in the territory.

The war in Gaza is not over yet, but the chaos anticipated by discussions about its future can already be seen.



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