Military and strategic expert, Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi, believes that the Palestinian resistance’s insistence on the necessity of the Israeli occupation’s withdrawal from the Rafah crossing, the Philadelphia axis, and the Netzarim axis has a political and strategic dimension.
The Israeli army’s control over the Philadelphia Axis and the Rafah Crossing – Al-Duwairi adds in an analysis of the military scene in Gaza – will isolate the Gaza Strip from the world and the Arab surroundings, because the Rafah Crossing is the lung through which Gazans breathe, and the 2014 war was resolved when Egypt took a decision that it would not enter Gaza alone.
Sources told Tel Aviv Tribune that the head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Ismail Haniyeh, and the Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Ziad al-Nakhalah, delivered the response to the Israeli proposal – regarding a ceasefire – to the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, yesterday evening. Tuesday.
The sources stated that the response that was delivered included amendments to the Israeli proposal, including a ceasefire. The amendments also included Israeli withdrawal from the entire Gaza Strip, including the Rafah crossing and the Philadelphia axis, according to the same sources.
Regarding the developments taking place on the Netzarim axis, Al-Duwairi denied that the mission of this axis is to transport supplies, as the occupation claims. Rather, its goal is to separate the northern Gaza Strip from its south, because the Israeli plan was to completely empty Gaza of its population.
The occupation’s survival in the Netzarim axis means dividing the sector into a northern sector and a southern sector. Therefore, the Palestinian resistance, especially the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements, focused on the necessity of the occupation army also withdrawing from Netzarim, as Al-Duwairi explained.
In the south of the Gaza Strip, Al-Duwairi said that 5 brigades led by the 163rd Division are in Rafah, part of which was allocated to the Philadelphia corridor, and the main node for the occupation army was the Rafah camp and the heart of the city of Rafah, indicating that the occupation is afraid of entering deep into the area despite its small size.
Regarding the Lebanese front, the military and strategic expert believes that the continuation of the war in Gaza is the first obstacle to the outbreak of confrontation between the Lebanese Hezbollah and Israel, and he said that the occupation has moved towards what he called “qualitative escalation,” as it has begun targeting the leaders in Hezbollah, and for its part, Hezbollah relies on On the equation that the response is matched by the response.
Yesterday, Wednesday, Hezbollah carried out the funeral of prominent leader Talib Sami Abdullah (Hajj Abu Talib), who was killed in an Israeli raid on the town of Joya in the Tire district of southern Lebanon on Tuesday evening, vowing more severe and stronger operations in quantity and quality against Israel.