{"id":32,"date":"2025-04-29T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mynas-on-pines.net\/?p=32"},"modified":"2025-10-28T13:58:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:58:34","slug":"will-civilians-finally-have-a-way-out-of-the-combat-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mynas-on-pines.net\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Will civilians finally have a way out of the combat zone?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(German below) Finally Israel seems to put an end to the strategic and moral madness of trying to fight a guerilla merely by scaled-up anti-terror methods, without isolating the insurgents from the civilian population. After 1\u00bd years during which civilians were called to evacuate into ostensible humanitarian zones that were, however, unprotected against infiltration by al-Qassam and al-Quds Brigades and therefore inevitably turned into combat zones and targets for <a><\/a>bombardments themselves, supposedly the preparation for an IDP camp in Rafah governorate under IDF control have begun according to yesterday\u2019s report by Kan 11. Civilians entering will be checked to be unarmed. US private security companies shall provide safety for the distribution of food and aid within the tent city that is to be built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Already at the beginning of this war the Israeli leadership rejected US proposals to follow the model of the liberation of Mosul from the \u201cIslamic State\u201d for the dismantling of Hamas rule in Gaza\u2014in Mosul, too, every civilian that was able to flee the besieged city was allowed into IDP camps. By delaying this step for over a year and not immediately starting to create an actual humanitarian zone for civilians at the latest when the IDF had operational freedom in large parts of Gaza, a million minors got trapped in combat zones, civilians had to evacuate again and again, tens of thousands of lifes were extinguished by the IDF that might have been saved. Due to the combination of a maximalist war aim of dismantling Hamas\u2019 military and governing capacities with a strategy unfit for reaching this goal, at least legally, a strong motivation for the Israeli government to resort to the criminal mean of starvation again was created (the hostage situation also plays a role here of course, but I leave that out in the context of this post). Meanwhile even Donald Trump has protested against the starvation policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early on in the war already, international humanitarian organisations refused to cooperate with Israel an the establishment of the ostensible humanitarian zones (especially in al-Mawasi)\u2014precisely because they did not want to participate in luring civilians into another, only more crowded combat zone, as it had also happened with the so-called \u201chumanitarian zones\u201d in 2009 in Mullaitivu in Sri Lanka during the final military offensive against the Tamil Tigers. The fears of those UN and non-governmental organisations turned out to be justified. At the same time due to its own strategic choice Israel was unable to prevent Hamas from diverting humanitarian goods. Precisely these diversions served as the (false) justification for limiting and finally entirely blocking humanitarian relief for Gaza. At the same time, through repeated attacks at Hamas police forces and Gazan civil defense (which are not automatically combatants and thereby legitimate targets, although some of them certainly also were Qassam members), in line with its goal of dismantling Hamas\u2019 governing capabilities, at many points during the war zones of total lawlessness were created, in which humanitarian organisations could not operate or refused to operate due to their own safety concerns or became targets for looters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The establishment of the new humanitarian zone under IDF control is good news\u2014I hope the current preparations are not a smoke screen for carrying out only half-way measures and I hope this step will not be sabotaged by other conflicting aims for example of not wanting to become obliged to supply Gazans or of wanting to \u201cencourage\u201d them to leave the country permanently. Even with very tough conditions in an IDP camp, even if we have to fear wide-spread abuse there, the situation can hardly become worse than under the current starvation policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DEUTSCH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Endlich beendet Israel seinen strategischen und moralischen Irrsinn, eine Guerilla mit hochskalierten Antiterrormethoden bek\u00e4mpfen zu wollen, ohne sie von der Zivilbev\u00f6lkerung zu isolieren. Nachdem \u00fcber 1\u00bd Jahre Zivilisten in angebliche humanit\u00e4re Zonen evakuiert wurden, die allerdings nicht vor Infiltration durch Al-Qassam- und Al-Quds-Brigaden gesch\u00fctzt waren und stets selbst zu Kampfzonen und Ziel des Bombardements wurden, soll jetzt ein IDP-Camp in Rafah errichtet werden \u2013 die Vorbereitungen haben bereits begonnen, berichtete gestern Kanal 11. An Checkpoints entlang des \u201eMorag-Korridors\u201c w\u00fcrden Zivilisten auf Bewaffnung \u00fcberpr\u00fcft. US-Sicherheitsfirmen sollen die Versorgung innerhalb des IDP-Camps \u00fcbernehmen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bereits zu Beginn des Krieges hatte die israelische F\u00fchrung amerikanische Vorschl\u00e4ge, sich bei der Zerschlagung der Hamas an der Befreiung Mosuls \u2013 wo diejenigen, denen die Flucht aus der Stadt gelangt, ebenfalls in IDP-Camps untergebracht wurden \u2013 zu orientieren, in den Wind geschlagen. Wom\u00f6glich wurden zehntausende Menschenleben aufgrund der Verz\u00f6gerung dieses Schrittes sinnlos ausgel\u00f6scht. Die Verbindung eines Maximalziels der v\u00f6lligen Entwaffnung und Zerschlagung der Regierungsf\u00e4higkeit der Hamas mit einer dazu innerhalb eines legalen Rahmens ungeeigneten Strategie, motivierte die israelische Regierung zugleich den dadurch entstehenden Anschein der Machtlosigkeit durch die verbrecherische Methode des Aushungerns zu kompensieren \u2013 gegen die mittlerweile sogar Trump protestiert hat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Internationale humanit\u00e4re Organisationen hatten zuvor eine Zusammenarbeit mit Israel f\u00fcr die Errichtung einer angeblichen humanit\u00e4re Zone in Al-Mawasi verweigert \u2013 eben weil sie f\u00fcrchteten, dass sie Zivilisten blo\u00df in eine weitere, noch beengtere Kampfzone locken w\u00fcrden. Ganz \u00e4hnlich war dies 2009 in den sogenannten \u201ehumanit\u00e4ren Zonen\u201c von Mullaitivu in Sri Lanka w\u00e4hrend der finalen Millit\u00e4roffensive gegen die Tamil Tigers geschehen. Die Bef\u00fcrchtung bewahrheitete sich auch in Gaza. Gleichzeitig konnte Israel so auch die Veruntreuung von Hilfsg\u00fctern durch die Hamas nicht unterbinden. Da Israel zugleich Hamas-Polizeikr\u00e4fte angriff, aber keine eigene Kontrolle \u00fcbernahm (um eine Versorgungspflicht zu vermeiden), wurden zudem Zonen v\u00f6lliger Gesetzlosigkeit geschaffen, in denen humanit\u00e4re Organisationen teilweise \u00fcberhaupt nicht operieren konnten bzw. wollten und teilweise zum Ziel von Pl\u00fcnderern wurden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die Errichtung der neuen humanit\u00e4ren Zone unter IDF-Kontrolle ist eine gute Nachricht. Ich hoffe sehr, dass der Strategiewechsel nicht auf halber Strecke stehenbleibt, die Vorbereitungen nicht zum Deckmantel f\u00fcr ein weitere Verl\u00e4ngerung der Katastrophe werden. Und ich hoffe, dass nicht konfligierende Ziele \u2013 etwa, dass man nicht f\u00fcr die Versorgung von Pal\u00e4stinensern selbst zust\u00e4ndig sein will oder dass man sie dazu \u201eermuntern\u201c m\u00f6chte, das Land zu verlassen \u2013 den Strategiewechsel sabotieren werden. Selbst unter sehr harten Bedingungen, selbst wenn wir mit Misshandlungen bereits rechnen m\u00fcssen, kann die neue humanit\u00e4re Zone im Vergleich zur aktuellen Aushungerungspolitik nur eine Verbesserung sein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(German below) Finally Israel seems to put an end to the strategic and moral madness of trying to fight a guerilla merely by scaled-up anti-terror methods, without isolating the insurgents from the civilian population. 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