“It is the end of the illusion of the state of Palestine. The Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich, the ultra -decay of the Netanyahu government ultra -prominent, exults the definitive approval of the birth of the new E1 in East of Jerusalem settlement, which in fact cuts the West Bank in two, separating the North and South and fragmenting even more the territory of a possible future state.
“The Palestinian state is canceled by the table not with slogans, but with the facts”, is the real objective claimed by Smotrich himself, so each of the 3,400 new housing units intended for the settlers represents “a nail on the coffin of this dangerous idea”.
The project of new colonies, considered illegal by the United Nations according to international law, was sentenced by the Palestinian National Authority which accuses Israel of wanting to transform the West Bank into a “real prison” and to want to “undermine the prospects for implementing the solution of the two states”.
The same consideration advanced by the European Union that has renewed the appeal to Israel to renounce it: “The settlement policy, which includes demolitions, forced transfers, evictions and confiscations of homes, must cease. Together with the continuous violence of the settlers and military operations, these unilateral decisions are feeding a situation already tense on the ground and further compromising any possibility of peace “, warned Brussels. While the firm condemnation of the Minister of Defense, David Lammy, arrived from London.
And also the historic Israeli pacifist movement Peace Now points the finger at the project whose sole purpose – denounces – is “sabotage a political solution for Gaza and the West Bank and fall towards a state of Binational Apartheid”.
Netanyahu also wants to accelerate the operation to occupy Gaza City and some neighboring refugee camps considered “The latest Roccafori of Hamas”, while the Israeli response to the Arab proposal for 60 days of respite in exchange for a part of the hostages, already accepted by the Palestinian faction, is expected days. Defense Minister Israel Katz approved the attack plan to the most populous city of the Striscia – which also provides for the eviction south of one million Palestinians already exhausted – and the call of about 60,000 reservists “to complete the mission”.
Just to the south, near Khan Yunis, the IDF reported having rejected a “large -scale” attack, defined by the Israeli media the most massive since the beginning of the war on 7 October 2023, and to have killed 10 terrorists who had attempted to infiltrate a station of the Kfir brigade, with a budget of three injured soldiers. The Ezzedin al Qassam brigades have instead claimed the raid, claiming to have caused several “dead and injured” among the military. Like the new settlement in the West Bank, the imminent offensive in Gaza also worries the international community. According to Emmanuel Macron, yet another military operation “can only lead to a real disaster for the two peoples and drag the region into a permanent war”.
For the head of the Elysée, already at the short irons with Netanyahu who accuses him of “feeding anti -Semitism” in pursuing the recognition of the Palestinian state, in Gaza, on the contrary, a ceased, the release of the Israeli hostages, the disarmament of Hamas and “an international stabilization mission” is needed, to which he is working with Egypt and Jordan. The United States of Donald Trump who defines Netanyahu “a war hero” who “is fighting”, said the Tycoon before he attributed the same title.
So much so that the State Department has announced penalties to four other judges of the International Criminal Court, which issued a arrest warrant for war crimes against the Israeli Prime Minister and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant, accusing the body of being “a tool of legal struggle against the USA and their tight ally Israel”. Netanyahu congratulated Marco Rubio for the move, “a decisive action against the campaign of defamation and lies against the state of Israel (and his army) in favor of truth and justice”. For its part, the CPI denounces “an attack on its independence” and promises that “it will continue to fulfill its mandate, undaunted, regardless of any pressure or threat”.