Construction of sterile corridor for displaced Palestinians matches Israeli intelligence plan

In October 2023 WikiLeaks published on X (formerly Twitter) a copy of a leaked Israeli intelligence document. According to the Hebrew website Mekomit, which originally published the document, the document was verified by an Israeli Ministry of Intelligence official.

The document outlines plans to displace Palestinians from Gaza into the Sinai desert. An English version of the document was subsequently published by Undercoverinfo:

Middle East Eye journalist Jonathan Cook commented:

According to the leaked Israeli intelligence ministry document, after their expulsion, Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians would initially be housed in tent cities, before permanent communities could be built in the peninsula’s north.

Under Option C of the document it’s proposed that a sterile zone should be created for the displacement and forcible resettlement of the Palestinian people. Specifically it says:

A sterile zone of several kilometers should be created within Egypt, and the return of the population to activities/residences near the border with Israel should not be allowed.

That sterile zone is now under construction.

Warnings 

Meanwhile it’s become more and more clear that the Netanyahu administration or its military were provided with multiple warnings over months regarding a major attack by Hamas. Those warnings were either ignored or downplayed.

One of the warnings came from within Israel’s elite intelligence unit 8200. An officer, known as ‘V’, warned the Netanyahu government that Hamas was planning an attack. That warning was delivered six months ahead of the October 7th attack, but was ignored by officers further up the chain of command.

8200 Military Intelligence is one of three such units that form Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate:

Soldiers in the unit are in charge of developing and utilizing information gathering tools, analyzing, processing and sharing of the gathered info to relevant officials. The unit operates in all zones and in wartime, they join combat field headquarters in order to enable a faster flow of information.

8200 is Israel’s equivalent of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and could be regarded as a honorary sixth member of the exclusive ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence-gathering club.

More warnings

Israel-based Haaretz also reported that a warning of the attack was issued 12 months prior. It was further reported that Egypt warned Netanyahu on numerous occasions to expect the incursion. Moreover, it’s claimed that ten days prior to the attack Egypt’s Intelligence Minister General Abbas Kamel contacted Netanyahu, warning him of what was planned. US House of Representatives foreign affairs committee head Michael McCaul confirmed that warning.

Furthermore, Israel Security Agency Shin Bet received a warning some months in advance of the attack, saying that Hamas was planning something for the period following the Jewish Yom Kippur holiday (week commencing September 26). The day before the 7 October attack Shin Bet received a second warning.

There were other warnings from Israeli frontline surveillance specialists.

A final solution

On October 17 Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy published a paper (PDF) in Hebrew advocating the “relocation and final settlement of the entire Gaza population.”

Moreover, Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin, said that the only solution to the current conflict is the “complete destruction of Gaza, before invading it… Destruction like Dresden and Hiroshima, without a nuclear weapon.”.

And Israeli MP Galit Distel Atbaryan called for Gaza to be “erased” and “wiped out.

Genocide continues

In January 2021 the Canary published details of how UK Labour leader Keir Starmer employed an 8200 member as his social media advisor. That advisor is Assaf Kaplan.

It’s thanks to the likes of the Labour leader, the Conservative prime minister Rishi Sunak and US president Joe Biden, that Netanyahu is able to carry out the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. 

Tragically that genocide continues day-by-day, though those who commit or support it remain at large.

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