"Corroborating Avivi's claims, exclusive analysis by Al Jazeera's Digital Investigations Team confirms that ground preparations for this project are already well under way. Satellite imagery captured from December 2 through Monday reveals extensive clearing operations in western Rafah. The analysis identifies an area of about 1.3sq km (half a square mile) that has undergone systematic levelling. According to the investigation, the operations went beyond mere debris removal and involved the flattening of land previously devastated by Israeli air strikes."
"According to comments by retired Israeli General Amir Avivi, who still advises the military, Israel has cleared land in Rafah, an area in the southern Gaza Strip that it had already flattened in more than two years of its genocidal war, to construct an enormous facility to entrench its military control and presence in Gaza for the long term. Speaking to the Reuters news agency on Tuesday, Avivi described the project as a big, organised camp capable of holding hundreds of thousands of people,"
Land in Rafah has been cleared to construct an enormous facility intended to entrench long-term military control and presence in Gaza. The project is described as a big, organised camp capable of holding hundreds of thousands of people, with ID checks and facial recognition to track every Palestinian entering or leaving. Satellite imagery captured from December 2 through Monday reveals extensive clearing operations in western Rafah, identifying about 1.3 sq km of systematic levelling beyond debris removal, adjacent to two Israeli military posts. The cleared zone and proximity to military positions indicate the facility is likely to function as a controlled holding pen rather than a humanitarian shelter.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
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