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"Architect of the 'Generals' Plan': Either they will surrender or they will die of hunger'."
Architect of the "Generals' Plan": Either they will surrender or they will die of hunger."
Although it does not officially announce the "Generals' Plan" in the north of Gaza, which Israel has been besieged and heavily bombed for 10 days, it is implementing. This plan ultimately envisages the division of Gaza into two.
The Israeli army's fierce siege and air and land attacks against the Cibaliya Refugee Camp in northern Gaza and the towns of Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanun 10. It continues on the day. Israel, which does not allow any aid materials, including drugs, to reach the region and continues to bomb civilians in the region, ignores humanitarian disaster warnings from international organizations, including the United Nations (UN).
The UN World Food Program (WFP) announced that the main crossings to the north of Gaza have been closed and no food aid has entered the region since October 1. In the statement, it was stated that food distribution points in the north of Gaza had to close due to factors such as airstrikes and evacuation orders of kitchens and bakeries.
The World Health Organization (WHO) also announced that there are almost no health services left in the north of Gaza.
The Arab League, on the other hand, described Israel's actions in the north of Gaza as "genocide" and condemned Israel.
Israel's siege and intense attacks in the region are based on a plan prepared by the initiative of General Giora Eiland, former Head of Operations in the Israeli army, which is called the "Generals's Plan". The plan in question envisages Israel's indefinite control of the north of Gaza and the establishment of a new Hamas-free administration.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu officially announced last month that they were considering this plan. However, no official decision was taken in the parliament. The Israeli army does not accept that its actions in the north of Gaza are based on this plan, but what has happened in the last 10 days show that the plan has been actually implemented, although it is not officially in practice.
Giora Eiland, the architect of the plan, shared a copy of the plan with the Associated Press (AP). Accordingly, it will give the Palestinians a week to leave about a third of the north of Gaza, including Gaza, and then the region will declare a closed military zone.
Food, water, medicine and fuel will not be allowed to enter the region, and Palestinians who do not leave their homes in the region will be considered "warriors" and the way for them to be killed. The plan envisages Israel maintaining control in the north for an indefinite period of time to try to create a new administration without Hamas by splitting the Gaza Strip into two. Eventually, Gaza will be divided into two.
When asked if the evacuation orders in the north of Gaza were the first stage of this plan, Israeli military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said, “No. We did not receive such a plan," he said. However, an official familiar with the subject told the AP that some parts of the plan were already being implemented, but did not specify which parts were. Another Israeli official said Netanyahu was "reviewing and working on this plan, like many plans that have reached him since the war," but did not give information about whether any part of the plan had been accepted.
According to the website of the Israeli military agency that oversees the UN and humanitarian aid crossings, no food, water or medicine trucks have entered northern Gaza since September 30.
Human rights groups say this plan will condemn civilians to starvation and violates international law prohibiting the use of food as weapons and forced migration. Accusations of Israel's intentionally restricting food entry into Gaza are at the heart of the genocide case against it in the International Court of Justice, and Israel denies these charges.
So far, very few Palestinians have obeyed the last evacuation order. Some are elderly, sick, or afraid of leaving their homes, but many fear that there is no safe place to go and they will never be allowed to return. Israel prevented the fleeers from returning at the beginning of the war.
"All Gazans are afraid of the plan," said Jomana Elkhalili, a 26-year-old Palestinian aid worker who works for Oxfam and lives in Gaza with her family.
Elkhalili said, “Still, they won't run away. They will not make this mistake again ... We know it is not safe there," he said, recalling the situation in southern Gaza, where most of the population gathers in tent camps and Israel conducts frequent airstrikes on these tents. “That's why people in the north say it's better to die than to leave,” he said.
After the architect of the plan presented the plan to Eiland, officials from the Prime Minister's office called him for more details. Eiland says the only way to stop Hamas and end the years-long war is to block access to help. Eiland said, “They will either have to surrender or starve to death. That doesn't necessarily mean we're going to kill everyone. There will be no need for this. People will not be able to live there (in the north). The water will run out," he said.
Tania Hary, executive director of Gisha, an Israeli human rights organization that defends the right of Palestinians to move freely in Gaza, said she was the most concerned that the plan implied that anyone who does not comply with the evacuation orders will be considered a “war”.
In the copy of the plan shared with the AP, it is stated that if the strategy is successful in the north of Gaza, tent camps sheltering hundreds of thousands of Palestinians further south may also be implemented in other areas.