{"id":16702,"date":"2024-03-09T00:46:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T00:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/israeli-road-splitting-gaza-in-two-has-reached-the-mediterranean-coast-satellite-imagery-shows\/"},"modified":"2024-03-09T00:46:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T00:46:16","slug":"israeli-road-splitting-gaza-in-two-has-reached-the-mediterranean-coast-satellite-imagery-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/israeli-road-splitting-gaza-in-two-has-reached-the-mediterranean-coast-satellite-imagery-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli road splitting Gaza in two has reached the Mediterranean coast, satellite imagery shows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The road, which he said will be used for at least a year, will have three lanes: one for heavy tanks and armored vehicles, another for lighter vehicles and a third for faster movement. It will be possible to drive on the Netzarim Corridor from Be\u2019eri, an Israeli kibbutz near the Gaza border, to the Mediterranean Sea in seven minutes, he said. <\/p>\n

Chikli is not involved in Israeli military policy. But, in January, Chikli, along with other members of Israel\u2019s parliament, the Knesset, proposed a plan to defeat Hamas that included steps to gain control over strategic parts of the strip. In it, they said that the Netzarim Corridor would be used \u201cto enable treatment of the underground infrastructure of Hamas and its resistance pockets in the north of the Gaza Strip.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe residents of the Gaza Strip should not be allowed to return to the north at least until the demolition of all the underground infrastructure and the complete demobilization of the area,\u201d they said in the proposal. It also included a second corridor further south that he called the Sufa Corridor.\u00a0The plan has not been adopted by the IDF, but it includes elements that are coming into existence, including the Netzarim Corridor. <\/p>\n

Cutting the strip in two<\/h2>\n

The Israeli military began bulldozing a path for its armored vehicles soon after declaring war against Hamas on October 7, following the militant group\u2019s attack on Israel. Satellite imagery from November shows the tracks emerging, at a time when the military\u2019s focus turned to surrounding Gaza City, advancing from the east. In early October, Israel ordered the evacuation of 1.1 million people from northern Gaza to south of Wadi Gaza, a strip of wetlands bisecting the enclave. <\/p>\n

The Israeli military gave right-wing Israeli TV Channel 14 a tour of the Netzarim Corridor in\u00a0February, revealing what it called a \u201cbuffer\u201d that is being worked on around the road. The report showed forces from the Israeli Engineering Corps operating tractors, trucks and engineering tools. <\/p>\n

Lt. Col. Shimon Orkabi, commander of Battalion \u201c601\u201d of the Combat Engineering Corps, told Channel 14 that the soldiers were busy destroying any remaining infrastructure in the buffer area. \u201cIt basically opened up this entire space of territory to us, allowing us to control everything that happens in this corridor,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

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He added that the Israeli military used a \u201clarge amount of mines and explosives\u201d to demolish buildings in the buffer zone, and that the remaining buildings in the area will \u201cprobably disappear soon.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Channel 14 report shows the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, about 380 meters (about 1,240 ft) away from the road, partly in ruins and soldiers operating in the area. <\/p>\n

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T\u00fcrk said in February that the IDF\u2019s reported destruction of residential buildings and other civilian structures elsewhere in the Gaza Strip, within a kilometer of the Israel-Gaza fence to create a buffer zone, could amount to a war crime. <\/p>\n

\u2018A barrier of humiliation\u2019<\/h2>\n

A road splitting the strip will make it easier to \u201cscreen people moving back and forth between the north and south and try to figure out if any of them are Hamas fighters,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n

Harding said Israel\u2019s biggest challenge since they started the operation in Gaza is to try to root out Hamas militants hiding amongst a civilian population: \u201cThe only way you do that is with really good tactical on the ground intelligence, and then preventing them from actually moving around.\u201d <\/p>\n

Many people in Gaza remember what such controls on movement were like before Israel withdrew from the strip. <\/p>\n

\u201cIsraeli soldiers were stationed at the junction full-time, and because Israeli settlers used it, we Palestinians mostly could not,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

During this period, Israel tightened its \u201cinternal closure\u201d policies, mostly for the security of settlements, according to a 2004 Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, leaving only one route between the northern and southern halves of the Gaza Strip. Along this route were the Abu Holi and Matahen checkpoints, which severely limited movement. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Abu Holi checkpoint was notorious,\u201d Al-Rozzi said, recalling a route from Gaza City to the southern city of Khan Younis that \u201ctook days\u201d to travel. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey placed a traffic light there that would only turn red. From red to red. Can you imagine? I remember it vividly.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI remember at that time my brothers and I were selling clothes. We used to go out very early in the morning to head southward. The checkpoint would be open sometimes, but on the way back, we would spend eight or nine hours on average. Sometimes it would remain closed, and people would spend their nights in the streets,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe memories of that checkpoint are painful,\u201d he said. \u201cImagine 200 to 300 cars waiting at the checkpoint to be granted passage by Israeli soldiers.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Israel-Hamas war has displaced both Al-Ashi and Al-Rozzi from the north to the southern city of Rafah. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf our house in Gaza City has not been shelled, I would like to go back to it. How am I going to do that if there are gates and checkpoints in my way?\u201d Al Rozzi said. <\/p>\n

\u201cMore so, how do we function there if I manage to cross back in? Will there be infrastructure left? Roads I can use?\u201d he said. \u201cI am a teacher. Will there be schools I can teach at? Am I going to be able to access them?\u201d <\/p>\n\n

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