2023-11-17 01:18:56
by Guido Olimpio
The refugee camp near the border with Egypt was the new target: it was the home of Sinwar and Deif. The first tunnels dug 40 years ago emerged in the area. According to Israel, some prisoners are hidden there
Israeli pressure was concentrated on the northern quadrant and Gaza City. A vast surrounded area, devastated by bombing and also the scene of the propaganda war. Now he has announced a new phase for Jerusalem and a move could concern the south of the Strip, which is important for an infinite series of reasons. Starting with the dark fate of the population.
Thousands of civilians, forced to leave their homes, poured into the southern sector. A humanitarian drama in an already disastrous situation. They have nowhere else to go, unless Egypt opens the gates of Sinai. Scenario excluded from Cairo which does its part by managing, with international organizations, the entry of aid and fuel, increasingly indispensable items while his services conduct parallel diplomacy on the kidnapped.
At the second point there are the tunnels, the historical ones. In fact, the first tunnels to feed traffic with Egyptian territory were born here and the clans gradually used them to bring in all types of goods or goods for common use. We’re talking about the eighties and nineties. In a subsequent period they allowed the factions to import armaments, from anti-tanks to explosives, from grenades to portable anti-aircraft systems. The tunnels took on a logistical function that was soon combined with the war dimension. Tunnels would also have been created in this area to house the mujahideen and material, to aid defense and to shoot from underground positions. Not only that: the proximity to the Egyptian border allowed the transit of exponents outside of any control, still resorting to tunnels.
The intelligence, through informants and spy aircraft, has paid a lot of attention to the Khan Younis refugee camp, a symbol of the Palestinian struggle. The Shin Bet suspects that he may be hiding a good number of hostages and above all does not exclude that the leaders of the movement direct the resistance from bases established in the suburbs. Yahya Sinwar, the political leader, born in these parts, same thing for his brother Mohammed, considered one of the leaders of the al Qassam Brigades. The number one of the military wing, Mohammed Deif, the ghost, the elusive, one of the planners of the October 7th assault, also comes from Khan Younis. A double bond, symbolic and operational, with this land.
At the beginning of the conflict a good part of the 30 thousand guerrillas were deployed in the southern part, with the usual division into anti-tank units, rocket launchers, hang-gliding teams with various sites reserved for training. Jerusalem claims to have killed several officers operating in Khan Younis and surrounding areas in raids, losses never confirmed by the movement. The air raids targeted neighborhoods near the border but also a south-eastern corridor that could be used to encourage the advance of ground units tasked with neutralizing the opposing hierarchy, step by step.
November 16, 2023 (modified November 16, 2023 | 10.44 pm)
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