Folks are asking what does Netanyahu’s occupation plan mean, since Israel already occupies Gaza?
It means implementing the notorious “Generals Plan” to Gaza city, Deir al-Bala & Nusairat; the only last 3 areas Israel hasn’t fully wiped out & where most Gazans are sheltering🧵
2\ The “Generals Plan” is ethnic cleansing (per Israel itself) done in 5 steps:
Fully encircle & besiege a city
Cut food & water & take hospitals & other vital services out
Bomb incessantly by air, land & sea
Invade gradually & force people out at gunpoint
Flatten everything
3\ Israel tested the "Generals Plan" in Northern Gaza in late 2024
There were around 150,000 Gazans there at the start
IDF surrounded them, cut off all food & water for over 100 days, gradually advanced from all directions, forced people out until only about 12,000 were left.
4\ Anyone who didn't leave Jabalia, Beit Hanoun & Beit Lahia during the Generals Plan was considered a "potential terrorist"
Wherever the IDF advanced, they rounded up people, kidnapped hundreds at random, put the rest on death marches southwards
5\ The cornerstone of Israel's campaign in Northern Gaza was to FLATTEN EVERYTHING so Gazans have nothing left to go back to
Once the IDF depopulated the area, they brought in settlers & bulldozers to demolish all homes left standing
haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
6\ "Occupying" Gaza city now means repeating the Generals Plan. Israel is very open about what's next:
Encircle the city, lay total siege, bomb incessantly, advance with troops, force people out
Anyone left behind is Khamas terrorsit
Then flatten everything like Jabalia & Rafah
7\ What Israel did in Northern Gaza & Rafah & now wants to repeat in Gaza city was called "ethnic cleansing" & "War of annihilation" by Israel's right-wing former Prime Minister & Defence Minister
"Indiscriminate unrestrained brutal & criminal killing of civilians"
8\ Israel repeatedly tried to depopulate Gaza city for 16 months with indiscriminate bombing, starvation, invasions...etc. but it failed
Israel called it a "cat & mouse game" where the IDF invades an area to push people south, but they instead flee to an adjacent neighbourhood
mako.co.il/news-columns/2…
9\ Gaza city is now sheltering over 1 million people. Over 70% of the city has destroyed, but it's not fully wiped out like Rafah or Jabalia.
If Israel gets its way in Gaza city & Deir Al-Balah, there would literally be nothing left of the entire Gaza Strip
10\ Where would a million Gazans go? A concentration camp in Rafah
Israel's Finance Minister quietly allocated 3 billion NIS this week for a Gaza "security box" to establish such a camp
A demo version of that camp already exists under the Abu Shabab gang
maariv.co.il/news/politics/…
11\ Netanyahu's own ministers are making clear the Gaza city depopulation & flattening plan is NOT about defeating Hamas or releasing captives
That's b/c it is all about wiping out the enclave largest & last remaining urban centre
jpost.com/israel-news/de…
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