Mada al-Carmel has published a position paper titled “The New Occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territories”.
In the position paper, Mada analyzes the Israeli vision of "the day after" the war on Gaza. It suggests that, a year after the outbreak of the war, Israel's vision of what is referred to as "the day after" is becoming ever clearer.
Israel aims to impose a new occupation of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967 that seeks to return to the pre-Oslo Accords status quo. The plan includes the expulsion of Palestinians from some areas and the establishment of a new local Palestinian authority to manage the civil affairs of the population, in order to free Israel of the burden of serving as an occupying power. Such a Palestinian authority would remain under Israeli military and security control, and would not be a political-national liberationist administration. This is the envisioned colonial project of further settlement that ends with the annexation of large areas of the West Bank. Its dilemma remains the installation of a new Palestinian civil administration in Gaza that is in line with the new occupation.
Israel also aims to unify the West Bank and Gaza, not in the sense of establishing a single administration and authority for the two territories, but in terms of establishing a unified system of occupation. In practice, this would involve transferring the status of the West Bank to the Gaza Strip, so that the two areas are under Israeli military control with two separate authorities, each of which is tasked with dealing with civilian issues without working toward any political or national action for liberation and independence.
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