Two military experts said that the military operation initiated by the occupying army in the northern Gaza Strip is different from previous operations and its goal is to implement the “generals’ plan” adopted by the political echelon in Israel.
Military expert Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi explained that the new operation differs from previous invasion operations, which included a time frame and information about fighters and leaders of the political and military resistance, in addition to searching for tunnels and detained prisoners.
He explained that the new military operation is related to the “generals’ plan” that aims to gain absolute control over the northern Gaza Strip and empty it of residents up to the Netzarim axis, where the numbers range between 350,000 and 700,000.
He added that the operation also comes within the framework of what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about about the project to redraw the Middle East, in addition to Israeli reports about settlement projects in the northern Gaza Strip.
Israeli Army Radio reported late last month that Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Galant approved a study of operations that could be carried out in Gaza on the basis of the “generals’ plan,” which stipulates a siege of the northern Gaza Strip, stopping humanitarian aid, and evacuating the population.
The American CNN network quoted a former Israeli military official as saying that the plan aims to turn the northern Gaza Strip into a closed military zone, besiege the fighters of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and “force them to surrender or starve.”
Al-Duwairi said that implementing the “generals’ plan” requires military action on the ground to remove civilians who are concentrated in the areas of Jabalia and the neighborhoods of Al-Shuja’iya, Al-Zaytoun, and Sheikh Radwan.
The military expert likened the new storming operation to the jaws of a pair of pincers through a double maneuver, leaving a corridor to exit from the east of the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood and west of Jabalia.
He said that the area has been besieged for a year and has suffered all kinds of torture and pressure, adding that the occupation achieving its goal in the north “depends on the resistance’s ability to confront this plan.”
He concluded that the occupation sent a message stating that it “seeks to control the northern region up to the Netzarim axis a year after the Al-Aqsa flood on October 7, 2023.”
Occupation objectives
Military expert Elias Hanna says that the Israeli army occupies the Netzarim and Philadelphia axes and the buffer zone, equivalent to 26% of the area of the Strip.
He stated that the new attack came from the east with two armored brigades and another from Al-Rashid Street (Al-Bahr) towards Sheikh Radwan and Jabalia “to secure a maneuver and strike the resistance that formed after the departure of the Israeli forces.”
The retired Lebanese brigadier general agreed with Al-Duwairi that the operation falls within the context of “the generals’ project and the displacement and confinement of the residents of the Gaza Strip to a specific place based on the appointment of a military governor for the coastal strip.”
The new operation also falls within the framework of information about “the aspects of the rehabilitation of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, and other organizations in terms of recruitment, manufacturing, etc., and preventing the situation from returning to what it was before last October 7.”
