Will Israel succeed in forming a buffer zone in Gaza?

Fars News Agency International Group – Guest Note; In early December, after a week-long cease-fire in the Gaza war, Israel informed the US that it intends to create a buffer or safe zone between itself and Gaza. It was said in the news that Israel has informed this intention to Egypt, Jordan and the UAE, as well as Turkey and Saudi Arabia. After a one-week break, he resumed his attack with greater intensity and by the way, since then, his casualties in Gaza have also increased. It will be.

Now twenty days after the publication of those news, Israel is demolishing 40 residential buildings daily in its border strip with northern Gaza. Two newspapers, Yediot Aharonot and Ma’ariv, reported that the depth of this safe zone, which will be along the Gaza border, will be one to two kilometers or a little more.

Well; Let’s look back; Netanyahu’s advisor said, first, destroy Hamas, secondly disarm Gaza and thirdly destroy extremism and after these three steps, create a buffer zone. Now nearly eighty days have passed since the war. Hamas, which has not been destroyed and is still killing the Israeli army, and even worse, it has not yet allowed Israel to dominate anywhere in the Gaza Strip in a military sense. The buffer or safe strip around the Gaza Strip has started in practice. Israeli media said on Saturday that Israeli tanks have started a ground operation from the Karam Abu Salem crossing (south of Gaza) towards the “Philadelphia Axis” line. The axis of Philadelphia is a line that starts from Karam Abu Salem crossing, parallel to the border of Gaza with Egypt, and continues to the village of “Al Suwaydi” on the Mediterranean coast. According to the Tel Aviv-Cairo peace agreement and also after the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation from the Gaza Strip in 2005, it was decided to create a buffer strip on the border between Egypt and Gaza and be under the supervision of the Egyptian military or police to prevent the movement of Palestinians.

The location of the Philadelphia line on the Gaza border with Egypt

Also, Haaretz newspaper wrote on Saturday, December 23, although Israeli officials have not announced it openly, but Israel has actually entered the third stage of the war because different decision-making centers in Israel are calling for a fundamental change in January prepares and the army prepares to release a large number of its troops. Because the cost of the army and the calling of security forces is staggering.

Although the US has fully supported Israel in all areas of the war, according to reports, the US is against the occupation of any part of Gaza, because He knows the dimensions of its political and legal problems. On the other hand, no Arab country or even the western friends of Israel have agreed to create a buffer zone in Gaza. The UAE, which has a lot of cooperation with Israel, said that it agrees with what all relevant parties agree to.

Third failure; The plan for the buffer zone was stillborn

As ​​a result, it should be predicted that, as after the past two and a half months of war, no concrete military achievements have been achieved for Israel, the creation of the buffer zone Hael will not succeed either; For several specific reasons. First, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other resistance groups, under the most intense bombing in recent decades, not only did not surrender or were not destroyed, but by maintaining the management of the field battle, they dealt so many blows to the Israeli army that the Golani brigade after losing A quarter of his force retreated from the battle. When the commander of the 13th battalion in Golani Brigade gave an interview to Israeli TV, he was so happy about this withdrawal that during the interview, his smile and enthusiasm did not disappear from his face. Therefore, Hamas and other Palestinian groups will not allow a buffer zone to be formed in a situation that is far easier than the current war situation, and even if it takes it, it will not be safe and stable.

The interview of the commander of the 13th Golani brigade with Zayed al-Afsaf being happy about the withdrawal

Secondly, the beginning of movements to implement the safe zone plan, in itself means the failure of ground military operations in Gaza. Because if Hamas was destroyed and Gaza was disarmed, there would be no need to speed up the implementation of the safe zone. Therefore, trying to create a safe zone means a heavy failure of ground operations. Therefore, when Hamas and resistance groups are established, it automatically means that the plan to create a buffer zone is stillborn. When the dust of war settles, Israel and its military will better understand the third defeat. Because the first failure was on the 7th of October, and the second failure was the failure in the ground operation aimed at destroying Hamas and returning the prisoners, and the third failure was the creation of the buffer zone. The passage of time will show the depth of all three.

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