Quoted from the BBC World:
'' 'Surrender or starve': Attack on Jabalia hints at controversial Israeli plan for northern Gaza" "On Saturday morning, a message was posted on social media by the Israeli military's Arabic spokesman warning people living in the 'D5' area of northern Gaza to move south. D5 is a square on the grid superimposed over maps of Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). It is a block that is split into several dozen smaller areas. The message. the latest in a series, said: 'The IDF is operating with great force against the terrorist organizations and will continue to do so for a long time. The designated area, including the shelters located there, is considered a dangerous combat zone. The area must be evacuated immediately via Salah al-Din Road to the humanitarian area.' The suspicion among Palestinians, the UN and relief agencies is that the IDF is gradually adopting some or all of a new tactic to clear northern Gaza known as the 'Generals' Plan'." (Jeremy Bowen)
This reminds me of how the Nazis were sectioning off parts of the Warsaw Ghetto during WW2,, forcing evacuations of Jews into smaller and smaller, supposedly safe, zones with posted deadlines for getting out (often with just the clothes they were wearing and whatever they could fit in their pockets) before they sealed off these neighborhoods. So the designated safe blocks became more and more crowded and unliveable. Eventually of course, no place was safe, and that was the whole calculus of the Nazi equivalent of the Israeli's "General's Plan" to keep moving Palestinians around until there is no place left for them to go. But maybe by that time nothing will matter anyway. To an outsider, me, Gaza has become a ghetto. This is what you might expect from a people who have not individuated, by which I mean, their shadow is running amuck. This does not bode well for anyone. But don't expect the United States to call them out. Our shadow is global in scale.
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