Israel wants to take the city of Gaza: What are the consequences?

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Israel wants to take the city of Gaza: What are the consequences?

Israel expands its military operation: the security cabinet has agreed that the army should take the city of Gaza. What consequences could this step have?

Israel wants to expand his military operation in the Gaza Strip. After hours of consultations, the Israeli security cabinet decided to take the city of Gaza – possibly with the aim of taking control of the entire coastal area. The largest city in the Gaza Strip has been the target of Israeli attacks since the beginning of the war around 22 months ago. Questions and answers to the possible effects:

In an explanation of the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after the decision of the security cabinet, five principles to terminate the war had been said goodbye: the disarmament of Hamas, the return of all hostages – alive or dead -, the demilitarization of the Gaza strip, the military control of the coastal area by Israel and the establishment of a civil administration, which neither the Hamas should still be subject to the Palestinian Authority (PA).

In an interview with the US broadcaster Fox News before the security cabinet session, Netanyahu said that Israel wanted to take control of the entire Gaza Strip, but did not occupy the area permanently. Hamas should be liberated in order to finally hand it over to other forces. This should be forces that, like the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas, did not call for the destruction of Israel.

Media speculate that the now specific announcement of an expansion of the fights could also be part of a negotiation tactic in order to massively put Hamas under pressure in the stuck negotiations. Israeli politicians indicated such a strategy. The N12 broadcaster reported that Qatar and Egypt as well as Turkey would already put pressure on the Hamas to quickly return to the negotiating table.

Destruction, rubble and misery around 22 months after the devastating Gaza war begins the picture in the coastal strip. The humanitarian situation on site is already described as catastrophic. According to the United Nations, famine also threatens in the area.

Israel’s military currently has around 75 percent of the area of the Gaza Strip. The city of Gaza is one of those parts of the coastal area that are not yet under Israeli control. About 700,000 people lived there before the war. Many people have already left the area, but it is expected that the conquest will lead to the flight of numerous other people. War acts in urban areas are considered to be particularly fatal to civilians.

The TV broadcaster N12 reported that the residents are to be evacuated in refugee camps in the center of the Gaza Strip – this should happen until the beginning of October. These camps are already overcrowded, the hygienic and health conditions there are considered to be health -hazard, repeatedly warned aid organizations of outbreaks of illness.

Already earlier hints about the intake of other areas, under the Palestinian population, fears about a new wave of flight and displacement – similar to during the war in the course of the Israeli state foundation in 1948 and during the 1967 six days.