Ok?
The idea of MOVING a half million people BACK OUT of Gaza is gone….
Israel is now pitching a form of control over the territory….
This should have some appeal to the Saudi’s and Egyptian’s , who WILL be involved in rebuilding the area, and do NOT want to move anybody anywhere….
The issue of a armed Hamas WILL REMAIN…..
Right now?
Trump is NOT a factor….
He’s busy with beating down the Ukraine…
Iran is scrambling around the Middle East and IS worried about Israel going after it’s nuclear weapon program….
The Israeli military has presented the UN and aid organisations with a plan for running Gaza that involves Israel having tighter control than it did before the war, according to humanitarian officials, casting doubt on whether Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has any intention of carrying out a military withdrawal.
At meetings with UN representatives on Wednesday and with officials from other agencies on Thursday, Cogat, the army unit given the task of delivering aid to the occupied territories, outlined a scheme of distributing supplies through tightly managed logistics hubs to vetted Palestinian recipients.
The blueprint appears to be a version of a scheme tried more than a year ago in Gaza, known as “humanitarian bubbles”, involving aid distributions from small, highly controlled areas that would expand over time. But the experiment was abandoned after a few trials in northern Gaza.
It has been revived by Cogat at a time when Israel is negotiating the potential start of a second phase of the January ceasefire agreement, which is supposed to include the full withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from the Gaza Strip. The Cogat plan instead involves a tightening of Israel’s grip on day-to-day life in the Palestinian territory.
According to aid sources briefed on the plan, the “humanitarian hubs” themselves could be secured by private security contractors, but they would be located in areas “under full IDF control”.
The only entrance to Gaza through which aid would be allowed under the plan would be the Kerem Shalom crossing, controlled by Israel. The Rafah crossing, between Egypt and Gaza, would be permanently closed.
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) allowed to operate in Gaza would have to be registered in Israel, and all staff working for them or for UN agencies would have to be vetted.
As aid would only be allowed through an Israeli crossing and not through Rafah, it would make operating in Gaza all but impossible for the UN relief agency for Palestinian Refugees (Unrwa) – by far the biggest aid organisation in Gaza – which has been banned by Israel.
Aid officials familiar with the Cogat briefing said the plan was presented as an established fact, with Israeli officials claiming it already had full US support and would therefore be hard for the UN to resist.
The scheme envisages a Gaza in which basic necessities are distributed to approved Palestinians at limited distribution points under tight Israeli control. It makes no mention of Donald Trump’s plan for the US to take ownership of the Gaza Strip and for the territory to be emptied of its Palestinian inhabitants…..
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The Palestinian Territories and Lebanon
Axis of Resistance objectives:
- Erode the will of the Israeli political establishment and public to sustain clearing operations in the Gaza Strip
- Reestablish Hamas as the governing authority in the Gaza Strip
- Rebuild and reestablish Hezbollah in southern Lebanon
- Establish the West Bank as a viable front against Israel
The IDF Air Force conducted a strike in the Hermel area near the Syria-Lebanon border on February 27, killing Hezbollah fighter Mohammad Mahdi Ali Shahin.[40] The IDF reported that Shahin coordinated weapons transactions and smuggling for Hezbollah on the Syria-Lebanon border and in the Bekaa region.
A Hezbollah official at a former fighter’s funeral called on the Lebanese government to counter “Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty,” which reflects the group’s severe degradation and prioritization of reconstitution. Hezbollah officials held a funeral on February 27 for Hezbollah Unit 4400 member Mahran Ali Nasser al Din whom the IDF killed in an airstrike in the Bekaa Valley on February 26.[41] Unit 4400 is responsible for arms smuggling along the Lebanon-Syria border for Hezbollah.[42] Hezbollah parliamentarian Hussein al Hajj Hassan called on the Lebanese government to exert greater diplomatic and political pressure on Israel during al Din’s funeral.[43] Hassan avoided direct threats of Hezbollah military action against Israeli forces in Lebanon.[44] Hassan’s comments align with Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem’s comments in recent days that Hezbollah had entered a “new phase” in which Hezbollah will support Lebanon’s diplomatic efforts to expel Israel from Lebanese territory….
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reportedly advanced into southern and central Quneitra Province in southern Syria on February 27. A southern Syria-based journalist reported that Israeli armored vehicles advanced toward a village in Khan Arnabeh, central Quneitra Province, on February 27.[20] The IDF reportedly destroyed infrastructure in a former Syrian Arab Army (SAA) military base in Masharah and fired warning shots in al Rafid before withdrawing to the Israel-Syria disengagement zone.[21] Mashrah is around nine kilometers east of the Israel-Syria disengagement zone. These IDF activities are part of Israel’s effort to prevent the interim Syrian government from establishing control over southern Syria.
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Iran and China continue to cooperate to circumvent US sanctions. At least eight tankers have participated in ship-to-ship transfers to move Iranian oil to China in recent weeks.[1] These transfers reflect the “dark fleet” of vessels that Iran uses to move oil through Malaysian waters to China.[2] Iran was reportedly holding around 16.82 million barrels of oil in floating storage facilities in December 2024…
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