The crisis in northern Gaza, current and former officials say, stems from Israel’s failure to develop a postwar strategy, or to plan for a prolonged military occupation.
Palestinians transport bags of flour on the back of trucks as humanitarian aid arrives in Gaza City on March 6. TEL AVIV — For three months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly celebrated the fall of Hamas in northern Gaza, brushing aside warnings that severe food scarcity and a widening power vacuum were creating a state of anarchy.
“If we do not exponentially increase the size of aid going into the northern areas, famine is imminent,” Cindy McCain, head of the U.N.
Netanyahu has remained defiant. In a speech Tuesday to the pro-Israel AIPAC lobby, he said the international community cannot “support Israel destroying Hamas, then oppose Israel when it takes the actions necessary to achieve that goal.” For at least two months, Israel has been partnering with local businessmen to truck in aid to the north. The pilot program — which was mostly kept under the radar until the deadly convoy incident — provides some clues about Israel’s postwar plans.
“We need to find together, international organizations and other countries, to create an alternative for the north,” he said. “We will flood Gaza with aid.”“The goal is to have more and more containers, but the question keeps coming up of who will receive these containers, who will secure them, who will sort them, and Israel is again and again finding itself back at square one,” said Michael Milshtein, former head of the Palestinian division of Israeli military intelligence.
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