Report: Satellite Analysis Shows Israel ‘Changed Shape’ of Gaza
About 80 percent of Gaza is now classified as Israeli military-occupied or areas where displacement orders have been issued as the enclave’s 2.3 million people continue to be herded into a tiny area in the South, a new analysis showed.
Israeli officials have been unambiguous in their plan to push the entire Palestinian population into the border region with Egypt as they promote “voluntary migration”.The United Kingdom’s Financial Times reported that critics of the forced mass displacement said it has been into a “desert wasteland with no running water, electricity or even hospitals” and represents clear-cut “ethnic cleansing”.“The Financial Times analysed hundreds of these evacuation orders, including about 30 issued since Israel shattered a ceasefire with Hamas in March,” it said. “Taken together they illustrate how Israel – which has authorised its military to occupy the entire enclave – has changed the shape of Gaza, leaving less and less land for Palestinians,” it added.Satellite imagery shows Israel’s military clearing areas and setting them up for army outposts, indicating a long-term military occupation of Gaza, the report said.
According to the UN, nearly 200,000 people have been displaced in the past two weeks alone, with displacement orders now covering the entirety of Gaza’s Northernmost and Southernmost governorates, as well as the Eastern parts of each of the three governorates in between.Last week, the enclave’s Government Media Office stated that the Israeli military now in effect controls 77 percent of the total geographical area of the Gaza Strip.“This is achieved through direct ground incursions and the deployment of occupation forces within residential and civilian areas, through heavy fire control that prevents Palestinian citizens from accessing their homes, areas, lands, and property, or through unjust forced eviction policies,” it said in a statement.The office called on the UN and the international community to take action to stop the Israeli expansion.Rejecting international calls for a ceasefire, Israel has pursued a devastating offensive in Gaza since October 2023, killing nearly 55,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children.
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