Israel has had tough fighting this Thursday –face to face, neighborhood to neighborhood – in Gaza City. In several videos, Hamas militiamen have shown, machine gun in hand, what the clashes with Israeli troops are going like. Meanwhile, they claim that they have already destroyed up to 130 tunnels of the Islamist movement and proclaim: “Gaza is ours!”

Almost at the gates of Al Shifa, that crucial hospital which, according to Israel, the “terrorists” have made headquarters. Meanwhile, the Israeli troops try to show their passage through the streets of the Gazan capital almost as a triumphal walk.

Israel: “Gaza is our land!”

“We were expelled from here twenty years ago, but We are reconquering this land that is ours!Gaza is land of Israel!“, Israeli soldiers proclaimed this Thursday morning when planting and raising their flag on the beaches of Gaza. This is shown by recordings from the Israel Defense Forces.

In almost cinematic videos, they portray an aseptic, almost surgical offensive, centered – they say – on Hamas tunnels, rocket launch posts, barracks and command posts. They count 130 targets destroyed already for some military swollen of coldness. “Anyone who stayed here is the enemy,” says a commander as he seizes Palestinian homes.

The new Palestinian Nakba

It is not surprising, then, that a authentic human tide –50,000 Gazans this Wednesday alone, about 75,000 since Sunday- this fleeing with what was on of what Israel calls “Northern Gaza”. In a Exodus that sadly, palpably recalls that of 1948, on which the State of Israel was founded. About that Nakba, literally, the great arab catastropheresonate deafeningly today:

  • The warnings of the Palestinian ambassador to the UN, who at the beginning of the Israeli offensive, on October 13, predicted a “ethnic cleansing complete in the Strip, the Nakba of ’48 reissued”0,
  • The statements of the Gazans themselves, who lament: “We have returned to the darkest days of the Nakba”.
  • And the cautions of the expertslike that of the main military advisor to the American president, who spoke this Thursday of a cleaning ethnic. This can only be, in addition to bleedingcounterproductive because it will mean radicalizing a good part of the Palestinian population, feed precisely the beast” which Israel wants to kill, Hamas.