How #Israel is turning #Gaza into a super-max #prison
▻http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2014-10-27/how-israel-is-turning-gaza-into-a-super-max-prison
We have been here before. Twelve years ago, Israeli bulldozers rolled into #Jenin camp in the West Bank in the midst of the second #intifada. Israel had just lost its largest number of soldiers in a single battle as the army struggled through a warren of narrow alleys. In scenes that shocked the world, Israel turned hundreds of homes to rubble.
With residents living in tents, Israel insisted on the terms of Jenin camp’s rehabilitation. The alleys that assisted the Palestinian resistance in its ambushes had to go. In their place, streets were built wide enough for Israeli tanks to patrol.
In short, both the Palestinians’ humanitarian needs and their right in international law to resist their oppressor were sacrificed to satisfy Israel’s desire to make the enforcement of its occupation more efficient.
It is hard not to view the agreement reached in Cairo this month for Gaza’s reconstruction in similar terms.