The construction of Israel’s Gaza concentration camp is complete

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  ISRAELI SECURITY PERSONNEL GESTURE AT AN OPENING TO THE NEWLY COMPLETED UNDERGROUND BARRIER ALONG ISRAEL'S FRONTIER WITH THE GAZA STRIP IN EREZ, SOUTHERN ISRAEL DECEMBER 7, 2021.   

The construction of Israel's Gaza concentration camp is complete
Israel announced the completion of an underground wall and maritime barrier surrounding the besieged Gaza Strip. Not a single mainstream media outlet used the term "concentration camp" to report on it but they should have.
BY HAIDAR EID
https://mondoweiss.net/2021/12/the-construction-of-israels-gaza-concentration-camp-is-complete/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-email-mailpoet

Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a concentration camp as "a place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard —used especially in reference to camps created by the Nazis in World War II for the internment and persecution of Jews and other prisoners." And a death camp is "a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed!"

The Gaza Strip, occupied and besieged by apartheid Israel, has been transformed into both; the difference is that it is larger than all known concentration and death camps created by the bigoted Western regimes in the 20th Century. Israel's decision to redeploy its troops around the densely-populated coastal strip in 2005, and then impose an unprecedented, medieval siege in 2006 that has shattered all spheres of life, and then carry out four massive attacks that have killed more than four thousand civilians, including women and children, does not seem to be enough for the ruling Zionist elites of the rogue state. 

Two days ago, it announced the completion of a sensor-equipped underground wall around Gaza which includes hundreds of cameras, radar and other sensors, and spans 65km. It was reported that the wall is more than six meters high and its maritime barrier includes electronic devices to detect infiltration by sea and a remote-controlled weapons system. The ministry did not disclose the depth of the underground wall. It took three and a half years to complete.

Not a single mainstream media outlet used the term "concentration camp," or even apartheid in reference to the ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip. The language used by the Israeli Occupation Forces has become the reference – no questions asked. No Gazan/Palestinian voice is permitted to say a word about the impact of this "project" on their lives. What we get to read is the statement made by Israeli war criminal, Defense Minister Benny Gantz, namely that "[t]he barrier, which is an innovative and technologically advanced project, deprives Hamas of one of the capabilities it tried to develop," and that "[it ]places an 'iron wall', sensors and concrete between the terror organization and the residents of Israel's south." PERIOD! No questions asked!

  ISRAELI SOLDIERS STAND GUARD DURING THE UNVEILING OF A NEWLY COMPLETED UNDERGROUND BARRIER ALONG ISRAEL'S FRONTIER WITH THE GAZA STRIP IN EREZ, SOUTHERN ISRAEL DECEMBER 7, 2021.   

The two million residents of the Gaza Strip have to be imprisoned inside this concentration camp because they are all "Hamas supporters," and that gives "us" the right to use a "smart wall" to encircle "them." That is not a form of "collective punishment" only because "they" are not born to Jewish mothers, and, therefore, they do not have the "right" to be treated as full human beings. Only those with white skin and/or born to Jewish families can have that right.

Apartheid South Africa and the American South under Jim Crow Laws must have been a picnic compared to this.

The two million residents of besieged Gaza, the overwhelming majority of whom are refugees who were violently expelled and dispossessed from their homes by Zionist forces in 1948, were subjected to four weeks (2009), 2 weeks (2012), 51 days (2014), and 11 days (May, 2021) of relentless Israeli state terror, whereby Israeli warplanes systematically targeted civilian areas, reduced whole neighborhoods and vital civilian infrastructure to rubble and destroyed scores of schools, including several run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), where civilians were taking shelter. This came after years of an ongoing, crippling, deadly medieval Israeli siege of Gaza, a severe form of collective punishment. But why are "they" not satisfied with what "we," supported by the complicit West and "friendly" Arab regimes, are offering them? (Forget about The Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, ratified by "us", i.e., Israel, banning collective punishment of a civilian population.)

   THE OWNER OF A HOME DESTROYED BY AN ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE IN MAY 2021 STANDS IN THEIR HOME IN BEIT HANOUN IN THE NORTHERN OF GAZA STRIP ON DECEMBER 9, 2021. OWNERS OF HOUSES PARTIALLY OR TOTALLY DESTROYED DURING THE MAY WAR ON GAZA ARE GROWING CONCERNED ABOUT THE DELAYED RECONSTRUCTION.   

Never before has a population been denied the basic requirements for survival as a deliberate policy of colonization, occupation and apartheid, but this is what Israel is doing to the people of Gaza, today: two million people live without a secure supply of water, food, electricity, medicines, with almost half of them being children under the age of 15.

And now we have to deal with the fact that we are literally inmates of the largest concentration camp on earth with no rights whatsoever. President Carter was not exaggerating when he visited Gaza in 2009: "[Palestinians in the Gaza Strip] are being treated more like animals than human beings...[n]ever before in history has a large community like this been savaged by bombs and missiles and then been deprived of the means to repair itself."

Alas, Carter is no longer the president of the USA, the strategic ally of apartheid Israel. As long as world official bodies and leaders choose to say and do absolutely nothing, Israel will go on killing more Palestinians, building higher walls, tightening the siege, and will claim it is all done in "self defense!"

And yet, we, ungrateful "antisemites," are being blamed for calling it a "concentration camp!"

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From If Americans Knew:

An Israeli soldier next to the newly completed barrier along the Israel-Gaza border.

An Israeli soldier next to the newly completed barrier along the Israel-Gaza border.
https://israelpalestinenews.org/two-million-people-are-imprisoned-for-15-years-the-new-barrier-will-remain-there-forever/

This is what the fence of a ghetto looks like, of a prison, of a concentration camp. Only in Israel do they celebrate the building of a concentration camp.
Only the skies of the ghetto are somehow still open, and that is in a limited fashion too. Coming soon, the next devilish invention of the defense establishment: A dome of iron, a huge ceiling over the skies of Gaza. The head of the "border and seamline" administration is already working on it...
Two million people have been imprisoned continuously for 15 years – there has never been another concentration camp like it...
By Gideon Levy, reposted from Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-congratulations-the-gaza-ghetto-now-has-a-fence-around-it-1.10451441?lts=1639247283235

They are celebrating inside the bunker: A new fence around the Gaza Strip was inaugurated. Fence? A terrifying barrier. All the honored guests of the Defense Ministry were invited to the "event declaring the completion of the project" – not including the leprous Benjamin Netanyahu, who holds founding shares in the project and was of course not invited. They hugged each other, the way only the old boys know how, slapped the back of "Mr. Fence," Brig. Gen. Eran Ofir, who has the poetic title of "head of the border and seamline administration" – in a country that has no border, and barely has a seamline. Naturally, sliced-up vegetables with dips and petits fours were served as refreshments, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said the barrier was "creative," as if it was a work of art, and everyone was delighted and bursting with pride.

After all, how is it possible not to delight in the face of the 3.5 billion shekels cast away: In other words, buried deep down in the ground, and in return for which Israel received 2 million cubic meters of concrete, 140 tons of iron and steel that will never rust, including sensors that are sensitive to any hoe used by a Hamas member, and security forever for the children living in Israel near the Gaza border – which is of course "priceless."

They even came from Donald Trump's America at the time to look at the wonder – the pride of Israel. Every Qassam rocket volley passed by there and saw the three concrete plants built there, the tons of cement and iron poured into the ground in a country that pays its disabled 3,200 shekels a month, and demands that they make do with this to live on, because it has no money.

While the iron and concrete monster was being buried in the earth, not even a single public discussion was held on this insane enterprise. Because what was there to discuss? Security. It's unlikely there are even 1,000 Israelis, not including the contractors and their families, who even heard about any of it. It's ridiculous to demand a public debate on the matter, which only brigadier generals understand, and characters like Trump are so thrilled about.

It's exciting to see the fence now in all its glory. It can serve as a new national monument to memorialize the temporary sanity that the country has lost. A convoy of limousines will bring the official guests from abroad – directly from Yad Vashem – to view the wonder. Here is buried the sanity of Israel. Here it has buried its head as deep as possible in the sand, and here it was finally declared an insane nation. A sophisticated military state, which surrounds itself with fences that have no rival anywhere in the world, facing barefoot militias, who will never stop harassing it for as long as they are imprisoned inside the Gaza Strip. A country that invests tens of billions of shekels more in preparations for a no less crazy attack on Iran, knowing that it will never carry it out, needs a monument to sanity – and its place is on the border with the Gaza Strip.

Behind the crowded facades of the iron grilles, it is no longer possible to see what is on the other side. But no one wants to see either. There is a huge concentration camp for people there.

When the fence was built around Qalqilyah in the West Bank it reminded one of a concentration camp. Whoever dared to make the comparison was immediately condemned of course. Facing the Gaza fence, it is no longer possible to deceive anyone: This is what the fence of a ghetto looks like, of a prison, of a concentration camp. Only in Israel do they celebrate the building of a concentration camp. Only the skies of the ghetto are somehow still open, and that is in a limited fashion too. Coming soon, the next devilish invention of the defense establishment: A dome of iron, a huge ceiling over the skies of Gaza. The head of the "border and seamline" administration is already working on it. First, he will just finish with the intimidating wall being built on the Lebanese border, and then he will be free to do that too.

Two million people have been imprisoned continuously for 15 years – there has never been another concentration camp like it. The fence that was inaugurated on Tuesday is obdurate: It will remain forever. You will never be released, Gazans. After all, you don't throw a billion dollars into the garbage.

The Bar-Lev Line was a death trap, the separation barrier has been wide open and ripped up for a long time, and no lessons have been learned. But the Israelis are celebrating. There is an abundance of security in the south, too – so much security that there is nothing left for anything else.

  Participants in the 45th annual Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations Leadership Mission to Israel visit Gaza wall, Feb 2021. The group made the first-ever visit by a foreign group to see construction on the barrier Israel is sinking deep into the ground along its border with Gaza. An Israeli official told the American group: "I think that when we talk about Israeli national security, you are part of that security."