It has now been 83 days since the terrible images of the chaos in Gaza have continued! to flood the screens. The carnage continues, with no serious prospect of a ceasefire, despite appeals! from international organizations, citizen movements! and even the Pope. Yet nothing seems to slow down the Israeli desire to go through with a military operation that, with each passing hour, embodies more and more in the flesh the notions oand ethnic cleansing.

Thomas Vescovi, an independent researcher specializing

 

in the Israeli state and the Palestinian territories, and a member of the editorial board of the research blog , offers an in-depth reading of the dynamics that run through this warlike context of unprecedented magnitude. He is notably the author of “The memory of the Nakba in Israel: The view of Israeli society on the Palestinian tragedy” (Ed. L’Harmattan, 2015) and “The failure of a utopia – A history of the left in Israel” (Ed. La Découverte, 2021). Interview.

For 83 days, the Israeli army has continued its south africa phone number library bombings and ground operations in the Gaza Strip. More than 20,000 people, mostly women, children and adolescents, have been killed, according to the latest report from the Hamas Health Ministry. How do you observe this situation?

October 7th completely reshuffled the cards of what is happening in the Middle East. The bombings in Gaza and the Hamas attack are part of the long Israeli-Palestinian history. A history where colonialism and the asymmetrical balance of power between two populations in struggle are symbolic.

What was particularly surprising was Hamas’s ability

 

to organize an attack of such magnitude. The result was a what were the biggest challenges at the beginning and what problems did you have to overcome? response from the Israeli army that clearly aimed to blame the entire Palestinian population. The latter is deeply dehumanized, to the point of being abandoned in a catastrophic humanitarian situation.

That being said, after 83 days, we must look at things in a cold afb directory light. The IDF is communicating around 3 war aims which are, in my opinion, unattainable:

  • The capture or death of Hamas’s top leaders, including Yahia Sinouar and Mohammed Deif [ the head of Hamas and the head of the group’s armed wing, respectively ]. Except that Israel doesn’t know exactly where they are, and the human costs of arresting them are completely disproportionate.
  • The destruction of the tunnels. However, to measure their extent and their functioning, it would be necessary to send soldiers there. Given the losses that the Israeli army is suffering, I can hardly imagine them venturing there.