Genocide and ethnic cleansing

Amal Saad is a professor at the University of Cardiff in Wales and an expert in the Hezbollah group. In his view, Israel has created the Gaza doctrine, an unprecedented new model of war. By doing so, it would promote ethnic cleansing and genocide against the population or social base of a force that is considered to be an enemy. That is what is being done in Gaza and southern Lebanon: It designates the non-military buildings and areas of Hamas or Hezbollah as terrorists and destroys them all.

In the words of Ssad, “this distorts the distinction between civilians and military, which is fundamental in international law.” Moreover, artificial intelligence known as Hasbara, which does not distinguish between civilians and military, is also used for these attacks. In any case, much has recently been said about the doctrine of the Generals promoted by Israel, and it is also clear that the continued beating of civilians is essential if they are to move away from their homes and lands.

Cartography of genocide

This cartography of Gaza has been developed by the organization Forensic Architecture, which concludes that in these territories there is such a high degree of destruction that the living conditions in them do not occur. At the same time, military bases of the Israeli Army have been established, or have been established, in these areas of total control of Gaza.

These fields are as follows. Throughout eastern Gaza, a one-kilometre protection zone has been opened, where most agricultural infrastructures have been destroyed. The other is the Netzarim corridor, which goes from west to east and divides Gaza into two. It is a journey of 6.5 kilometres with protection zones of 3.5 kilometres on its northern and southern margins. Also in these areas, most of them are crushed. The third area is the Philadelfia corridor, which controls in the south the border between Gaza and Egypt, 14 kilometres long.

In this safety net, the Netzarim corridor has two permanent checkpoints for the control of the two main roads north and south of Gaza. In addition, there are 13 other routes from Gaza to the Israeli military bases. Most of the civil infrastructure, both residential and agricultural, in their vicinity, has been destroyed.

According to the organization, these security camps cover more than 131.7 square kilometres of land in Gaza, which accounts for 36 per cent of the total territory. As an example of the destruction, he cites what the Israeli army has destroyed in the northern part of the Netzarim corridor: five universities, one court, a hospital, two tourist areas, a park and a sewage treatment area.

Unprecedented level of destruction

Forensic Architecture has given this kind of data to understand the magnitude of the destruction:

83 per cent of plant life in the Gaza Strip has been destroyed. Also 70% of agricultural land. More than 3,700 greenhouses have also been destroyed, accounting for more than 45 per cent of the greenhouses in the Gaza Strip.

Over 47 per cent of groundwater wells are destroyed and 65 per cent of water tanks have been destroyed or heavily affected. Israel has attacked 31 of the 36 hospitals in Gaza, 35 of them had to interrupt service on one or two occasions, and 16 have been besieged and surrounded on several occasions.

75 per cent of schools in the Gaza Strip have been attacked: 334 people have been affected by earthquake, while 91 have been destroyed. Also, 81% of universities have been affected: 18 people have been affected by earthquake, while 18 others have been destroyed by contusions.

The Gaza Strip, which has 341 religious buildings, has been damaged by 143 people and 91 have been destroyed. 91% of the areas declared as cultural heritage have been attacked, while 10 have been damaged and 30 have been destroyed. 47.3 per cent of roads have been destroyed in the north and 33.7 per cent in the south.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have had to take refuge in the schools of the capital, where the leaks that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have had to make have been known. Well, 70% of these schools have also been attacked – 346 schools.

Preparing settler settlements

As it is increasingly emphasizing, the Government of Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing for the recolonization of northern Gaza, and is working with the Nachala movement, an expert in such cases, as explained in the Haaretz newspaper. As Noa Landau, a journalist of the same newspaper, says https://archive.ph/CFy27#selection-1051.0-1051.10 “in practice Netanyahu’s plan for the aftermath of the war in Gaza is: military occupation, mercenaries and settlements.”

To elaborate this news, in Diario Red we used the article written by journalist Bruno Sgarzini.