Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is now referred to as the King of Israel, is now facing a difficult choice. Following the release of two Israeli hostages in the Rafah region, which is the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt, speculations that more hostages can be found in Rafah are getting stronger.
The fundamentalist group Hamas, which launched an attack on Israel , surely with spiritual, material and weapons support from Tehran and boasted in early October that it would prostrate the Israeli army in the northern and central areas of the Gaza Strip, now except for troops which have practically lost their combat effectiveness in hiding in the underground channels, have practically retreated to the southernmost parts of Gaza.
Let’s not forget that just a few days before the October 7 attack, the heads of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas met with Khamenei in Tehran. There is no doubt that the main motivation of Hamas for the October 7 attack was Khamenei and the IRGC Quds Force, and they gave Hamas and Islamic Jihad the false hope of dragging the war into Israel and Al-aqsa storm led these power-seeking and irresponsible leaders to the well of drowning in (deceived these power-seeking and irresponsible leaders about Al-Aqsa storm). Now the imaginary leaders of the Islamic Republic, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad are responsible for death of more than 30,000 Jewish, Arab and Palestinian people.
With the withdrawal of Hamas and Islamic Jihad forces to the southernmost parts of Gaza and even to the Rafah crossing on the Egyptian Sinai border, it is natural that Hamas has transferred the hostages to areas around Khan Yunis, Rafah and its overcrowded refugees camps. It is very unlikely that Hamas will take the risk and keep the hostages in the underground tunnels that are now practically in the areas that controlled by Israel. However, the possibility should not be overlooked that some of the hostages were left in the underground tunnels for the condition and possible exchange that the leaders of Hamas are trapped in the tunnels.
On this basis and logically, most of the innocent hostages should be kept in the southern regions, especially in Rafah and Khan Yunis.
Considering the high probability, Netanyahu is now considering the possibility of an all-out attack on Rafah. On the other hand, if the Israeli army does not attack Khan Yunis and Rafah, the Israeli operation series called “Iron Swords” will be ineffective in its goal, which was planned to destroy the organization of “Hamas”. Because the Israeli army has successfully pushed Hamas from the northern areas of the Gaza strip and the border of Israel, to the south and the Rafah crossing in the neighborhood of Egypt, and now that these forces are stuck in the south, it has left them alone. At the same time, there is a possibility of more hostages in these areas.
Netanyahu’s choice in this case is difficult because if the possibility of hostages being held in Rafah and Khan Yunis is high, the Israeli attack on these areas will increase the possibility of them being killed. It seems that the right solution for Israel is to defuse the issue, to negotiate with Hamas to release the hostages in exchange for the release of more Palestinian prisoners. In such a case, the final attack on the southern regions to destroy Hamas should take place after the release of the hostages.
The final solution after the release of the hostages is the security control of the Gaza Strip and even the West Bank by Israel and driving many of the population of these areas to the Sinai desert. Let us not forget that the continued presence of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the southern borders of Israel and in the Gaza strip is the main source of the growth of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish fundamentalist groups just a few tens of kilometers from the Jewish settlements in the south of Israel, which itself is the source of tension in the region and chance of recruitment for Khamenei and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. There is no doubt that the Gaza Strip, if it is under Israel’s control, will become an industrial and prosperous area in less than ten years.
Many experts are of the opinion that if Netanyahu can clear the Gaza Strip from the presence of Hamas, then the ground for creating a channel that starts from the southern port of Eilat and the Negev desert under the control of Israel and connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean coast and the end of this channel will be located in areas of the Gaza Strip near the Mediterranean Sea, a revolution in international commercial shipping and with the monopoly of Egypt and the Suez Canal will end with an annual income of 10 billion dollars for Egypt on shipping in the region.
The prospect of unpredictable political changes, including the rule of fundamentalist forces over Egypt (like what happened in 2011 with the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood over Egypt), encourages Western countries, especially the United States, to seriously consider the implementation of this plan, the cost of which exceeds 100 billion dollars has been estimated. The start of this plan is only in the case of the destruction of the Hamas organization and the quasi-government associated with it, which has practically become a serious obstacle to the economic prosperity of this region. This is exactly why General Al-Sisi, in his turn, is worried about the expulsion of Gaza residents to the Sinai and Rafah deserts in Egypt and strongly opposes it. The calm in Gaza and the start of the plan to create the “Ben-Gurion” canal will reduce Egypt’s income from the Suez Canal to half of its current amount.
In such a situation, Benjamin Netanyahu, by clearing Gaza from Hamas, will take the honor of starting the creation of this very effective channel and become a historical figure in Israel.
Conclusion:
A large number of hostages in the southern regions; Rafah and Khan Younis have been detained, and Israel should launch a massive military attack on Khan Yunis and Rafah in order to release them, deal a final blow to the terrorist group Hamas, and drive the Palestinian refugees and former residents of Gaza to Egypt’s Sinai and Rafah. The return of Hamas and the Palestinian refugees to the north of the Strip is the source of further tensions on the Israeli border and the basis for the growth of fundamentalism and the support of Hassan Nasrallah and Khamenei among them. On the other hand, the initiation and implementation of the Ben-Gurion Canal project requires calm in Gaza, and this can only be achieved with Israel’s security control over this area.
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