‘Massive Failure’: Israel Failed in Its Plan to Expel Gazans, Academic Says
Speaking to Anadolu Agency in an interview published on Sunday, Abdel Samad Belkabir pointed said that displacing Palestinians from the Gaza Strip was among the main aims of the occupation regime in launching its devastating war. “Israel's goal is not to take hostages, but to expel the Gazans from their lands,” he said.
He noted that the Israeli goal is “displacement, as it has been linked to Israel since its founding in 1948 on occupied land; both the displacement of Palestinians outside Palestine and the displacement of settlers into it.”
Meanwhile, he noted that the regime has totally failed in this objective. “I rule out any success in displacing the Palestinians from Gaza, as the Israelis were not able to remove even a single Palestinian from Gaza, which indicates a massive failure,” Belkabir said.
The Israeli regime launched a massive military campaign against the Gaza Strip following an unprecedented attack by Palestinian resistance group Hamas which the group said came in response to increased Israeli violence against Palestinians and desecration of Islamic sanctities.
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The regime's brutal bombing campaign has killed at least 14,854 Palestinians, including 6,150 children and over 4,000 women, according to health authorities in Gaza.
"The population of Gaza reached 1.2 million individuals, and despite the scale of destruction and killing and everything done to displace them to the southern Gaza Strip, the Israelis did not succeed, as there are still 850,000 Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip," said Belkabir.
"Time is a crucial element in this context, given that Israel is rushing to implement its goals by promoting lies, but time is not on its side," he said. “To implement this plan, they need a year, and this is impossible because international public opinion is rising in favor of Palestine, the scandals of Israel and America are increasing, and the military balance of power is shifting.”
Source: Agencies
