Illustrative image. (The Times of Israel)
Israel has informed Egypt that it’s planning to launch a military operation to take control of the border line between the Gaza Strip and Egyptian territory, The Wall Street Journal reported on January 13.
Citing Israeli and Egyptian officials, the newspaper said that the aim of the operation will be to occupy the Rafah border crossing and station troops along the so-called Philadelphia Corridor separating Egypt and Gaza, with Israeli forces operating within the Strip.
The operation has not gotten the all-clear from Israeli leaders, according to the newspaper, which said that the timing will depend on talks with Egypt.
The Wall Street Journal also reported that Egypt rejected an Israeli proposal to have Israeli troops conduct joint patrols on the Egyptian side of the border, saying it was working to install barriers and increase surveillance in the area.
“Israel does not want to be responsible for Gaza in the long term, but the question is how do you make sure that Gaza stays demilitarized?” a senior Israeli military official was quoted as saying. “It’s a real dilemma. The only way to control a geographic area is to control what’s going in and out.”
“Right now in the near term, in the next few decades, Israel needs to control the borders because of the security issues,” the official added.
In the morning, several Israeli strikes hit an area close to Rafah border crossing in southern Gaza. The strikes killed 12 Palestinains, according to Al Jazzera.
The planned Israeli operation along Gaza’s border with Egypt shows that Israel intends to occupy key parts of the Strip for the long term.
Egypt will not likely facilitate the Israeli operation. At the same time it won’t be able to intervene against it in any way as Israeli troops will be operating within Gaza. The Israeli occupation of the Palestinian side of the border will further complicate the lives of more than two millions people living in the Strip, which was already considered an open air prison before the war.
While Israel claims that the occupation of the Strip is meant to guarantee its security, the occupation could lead to the mass displacement of Palestinians as living conditions will be unbearable.
i bet there’s a lot of tunnels that start in gaza and go into egypt. that would be where hamas leadership and most of the hostages would be.
they say there is a direct metro link to downtown cairo…… go figure…does that mean shlomo is going underground in the sinai after getting burned crispy in tiny gaza. meanshile kosher nostra vampire beast nitay aka nut’nyahoo is about to get the chop.
i don’t know but i’m guessing hamas has planned for the worst case scenario and already have martyrdom charges manned by martyrdom sentries ready to take themselves, their guests and any rescuers to heaven in a final blaze of glory.
a samson option in other words
the tick tock idf diaper head tranny squad cannot defeat the gallant palestinian resistance in the rubble of gaza and so they need a war with egypt. wtf? i just can’t wait to see this s#itty little entity get ripped to pieces from all sides. onward with the heroes of hezbollah, hamas and the fun loving houthis.
what i told you since the start of gaza occupation, egypt was occupied during cold war, when israel intelligence services with the help of usa/uk empire expanded the zone of influence across mediterranean and middle east in the 70’s and 80’s.. israel will do whatever they wanted in gaza and palestine. geopolitical speaking israel had no major contenders thats why they can do whatever they want in their zone of control.
good news for hamas. lots of israeli targets to take out. no way israel can do this without the help of egypt.
the world would be better if israel was nuked. it’s parasitic fake and useless as a nation. pseudo nation is all it is, a farce.
let’s see what egypt going to do now, as it is against their agreements. i know for long time some egyptians claim a lot and yeah let see.
if egypt had balls they would have sent their army into gaza by now.
some criminals are desperate to expand the so-called “great isreal” project.
everybody check out the talmudic tunnels in new york city. people have been seeing ultra orthodox yehuds crawling out of sewers like rats, many tunnels found under synagogues. hahahah.. they hate tunnels in gaza but love their tunnels in jew york city
well, if the egyptians allow this, than they are dumb, because the israelis are going to keep moving the border into egypt until egypt is gone.
hamas can’t take a break. fighting under tunnels, dying under tunnels
allah = yaweh = god…..you still dont realize how dumb you are, ‘chosenite’. chosen to be an example of what type of human to never become
looks like greek culture under the ancient roman empire did a great job unifying all the gods under just one god, simplified the gods to just one. pay attention ‘one god’ means just one priest sect ruling, one empire, one girl, because in your tiny little head there is only room to one god to govern over all your tiny brain cells… there is not such thing has monotheism, it’s human invention.