A left-wing Israeli writer advised those who want the ground offensive on the Gaza Strip to continue until the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) collapses, to be aware of the implications – including political ones – when the war ends and the final statements are verified and placed on the desk. Every foreign minister and the media all over the world.
In an article in the Israeli newspaper “Haaretz”, Amira Hass warned Palestinians who prefer to remain in their homes in northern Gaza, despite the Israeli army’s orders for them to evacuate, that they risk being exposed to death as a result of missile attacks, or in an exchange of fire, or under the rubble of buildings.
She said if it was right – according to the army’s logic – to do this in southern Lebanon, “it is also right to do the same thing in Gaza.”
Comparison between Gaza and Lebanon
The leftist Israeli writer compares the Gaza Strip and Lebanon in terms of area and population density. In this regard, it says that the area of the Palestinian coastal strip is 365 square kilometers compared to Lebanon, which has an area of 10,230 square kilometers, while the population density in Gaza exceeds 6,100 people per square kilometer (according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics), while in Lebanon it is 547, According to the World Bank.
Therefore, one cannot properly ascertain the extent of the health and humanitarian repercussions resulting from the accumulation of more than two million people in less than half of the area of the Strip, with fighting continuing in areas close to them, including bombs falling from the air.
Increased displacement
Ironically, despite what was stated above, the author indicated at the beginning of her article that opinion polls conducted by the Institute for Jewish People’s Policy and the Israeli “Meet the Press” program showed that between 25% and 44% of Israelis support rebuilding Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, which is expected To witness more displacement of Palestinians from it.
The Haaretz article indicated that the Israeli authorities ordered a large number of residents and displaced people in the villages east of Khan Yunis and in some neighborhoods of the city to head south.
Every day more neighborhoods are ordered to evacuate, or bombings and bombings “convince” those who remain to leave, but where will they go? The writer wonders without providing any clear answer, but she points out the hardship that the displaced Palestinians will be exposed to as the area shrinks due to the Israeli army forcing them to leave their areas of residence.
18 thousand per square kilometre
The evacuation orders from the city of Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip, and the expected ground invasion of this area – along with air, sea and land bombardment – suggest its intention to crowd approximately two million people into an area of 110 square kilometers, with 18,181 people per square kilometre.
Because calamities often do not come singly, Haas warns of the consequences of deaths among the people of Gaza, not as a result of Israeli attacks alone, but as a result of diseases and epidemics resulting from overcrowding and lack of water and medical care, especially during the cold and rain of winter. The author adds that Gazans’ absolute dependence on humanitarian aid is one of the reasons for the spread of depression and exhaustion in the Strip.
Talks about immigration
She claimed that people in Gaza’s conversations about immigration are increasing, and there are rumors of bribes to enter Egypt, without going into details.
However, it quoted an engineer who lived and worked in the Strip about 20 years ago (whose name was not mentioned), predicting that the unbearable overcrowding amid the attacks and fighting would force desperate Gazans to breach the border fence with Egypt.
