'Israel' launches “separation plan” to split, isolate Gaza

Roya’s correspondent in the occupied Palestinian territories reported that the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched a new offensive south of Deir al-Balah on Monday.

Analysts view this move as the beginning of an alternative military plan aimed at achieving complete geographic separation between the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip, using starvation and dehydration as key tools in this new phase of the genocide campaign.

The correspondent added that operational maps published by the occupation army’s spokesperson show that the immediate goal of the advancing forces is to reach and cut off Al-Rashid coastal road, which has not yet been achieved.

- Siege and starvation -

According to military analysts, what is happening now is the activation of a pre-prepared “Plan B,” designed to be implemented if negotiations fail. This plan aligns with the IOF's establishment’s vision and is based on the following principles:

• Isolation and siege: Besieging the three largest remaining population centers in the Strip (west of Gaza City, the central camps, and the Al-Mawasi area) and completely isolating them from one another.
• Confining the displaced: This separation will effectively trap hundreds of thousands of displaced people from Khan Younis and Rafah in the narrow coastal strip, while the central governorate will be surrounded between this new separation line and the Netzarim corridor to the north.
• Starvation as a weapon: The most alarming aspect of this plan is the imposition of a suffocating blockade on the areas where civilians are trapped, using starvation and dehydration as systematic and widespread weapons, worsening an already catastrophic situation.
• Limited operations: The siege will be accompanied by limited incursions inside these besieged areas, with the aim of “raising the cost to the maximum for every day without an agreement,” alongside plans to expand control to cover 90 percent of the Strip’s territory.

- Pressure on negotiations -

Observers believe that, while this military escalation represents a real plan prepared for implementation, it also serves as an attempt to exert maximum pressure at the negotiating table.

Nevertheless, most key actors do not appear to favor such a catastrophic scenario, except for far-right ministers in the 'Israeli' government, such as Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir, who are pushing for such plans aimed at making life in Gaza impossible.