The real reason why Israel has gangs in Gaza | Israeli-Palestine conflict

For months, Israel and its defenders insisted that Hamas steals humanitarian aid. They used this assertion to justify the famine of two million people in Gaza – to bomb bakeries, block food convoys and pull desperate Palestinians waiting for bread. We were told that it was a war against Hamas and that the ordinary Palestinians were simply caught in the middle.

Now we know the truth: Israel has armed and protected from criminal gangs in Gaza which engage in the theft of humanitarian aid and terrorizing civilians. A group led by Yasser Abu Shabab, who is linked to extremist networks and is said to have engaged in a variety of criminal activities, receives weapons from the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

And Netanyahu admits it proudly. “What’s wrong with that?” he said when he was confronted. “It saves the lives of soldiers (Israelis).”

What’s wrong? All.

It is not only a tactical decision – it is the admission of a real intention. Israel never wanted to protect Palestinian civilians. He wants to break them. Hide them. Return them against each other. Then blame them for chaos and the resulting suffering.

This strategy is not new. It is colonialism 101: Create anarchy, then use it as proof that the colonized cannot govern themselves. In Gaza, Israel is not only trying to defeat Hamas. He tries to destroy any future in which the Palestinians could govern their own society.

For months, Western Media repeated the non -verified complaint that Hamas was flying help. No evidence has been shown. The United Nations said on several occasions that there were no evidence. But that didn’t matter. History served his goal – he justified the blockade. It made the famine look like a security tactic. This made a collective sanction look like a policy.

Now the truth has come out. The gangs terrorizing aid roads were those who argued that Israel. The myth collapsed. And yet, where is indignation?

Where are the severe statements of the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom-the same who claimed to worry about humanitarian delivery? Instead, we get silent. Or worse – an uptop of shoulders.

Netanyahu’s open admission is not only arrogance. It is confidence. He knows that he can say the calm part aloud. He knows that Israel can violate international law, criminal arms gangs, bombs schools, hungry civilians – and always be welcomed on the world scene. Always receive weapons. Always be rented as an “ally”.

This is what total impunity looks like.

And this is the cost of believing that the PR machine of Israel – to let it present itself as a reluctant occupant, a human soldier, victim of circumstances. In truth, it is a regime that does not only tolerate war crimes – it engineers, finances them and then uses them as propaganda.

It is not only a war against the Palestinian bodies, houses or even survival. It is a war against the Palestinian dream – the dream of having a state, of building a future with dignity and self -determination.

For decades, Israel has systematically worked to prevent any form of coherent Palestinian leadership. In the 1980s, he discreetly encouraged the rise of Hamas as a religious and social counterweight to the secular organization of the Palestinian Liberation (PLO). The idea was simple: divide Palestinian politics, weaken the national movement and fragment any pressure for the state.

Israeli officials thought that supporting Islamist organizations in occupied West Bank and Gaza would create an internal conflict between the Palestinians – and he did. Tensions between Islamist and secular groups have grown up and have led to clashes on university campuses and in the political arena.

Israel’s policy was not motivated by a misunderstanding. It was strategic. He knew that the empowerment of the rivals at the OLP would fracture Palestinian unity. The goal was not peace – it was paralysis.

This same strategy continues today – not only in Gaza but also in the occupied West Bank too. The Israeli government actively dismantles the capacity of the Palestinian Authority (PA) to operate. It retains tax revenue which constitute the majority of the AP budget, putting it on the verge of collapse.

He protects the militias from the settlers attacking the Palestinian villages. He performs daily military raids in the cities administered by the AP, humiliating his forces and making them appear helpless. He blocks international diplomatic efforts of the AP while making fun of his legitimacy.

And this policy does not stop at the limits of occupied territory. Within Israel, Palestinian citizens face a similar tactic: intentional negligence, impoverishment and engineering chaos. Crime is left uncontrollable in their communities while infrastructure and services are underfalling. Their economic potential is suffocated – not by accident, but by design. It is a quiet war against the Palestinian identity itself: a strategy of erasure which aims to transform the Palestinians into a silent minority and without face stripped of rights, recognition and nation.

In engineering instability, then pointing this instability as proof of failure, Israel writes the script and accuses us of living it.

It is not only military policy – it is narrative war. It is a question of ensuring that the Palestinian people are not considered as a nation that seeks freedom but as a threat to contain.

Israel thrives on chaos because chaos discredits the Palestinian agency. This allows Israel to say, “Look, they cannot govern themselves. They only understand violence. They need us. ”

It’s not just brutal. It is deeply calculated.

But Gaza and the West Bank are not a failed state. These are places that have systematically refused the possibility of becoming one.

Gaza is my house. This is where I grew up. This is where my family always clings to life. They deserve better – better than a colonial regime that bombs them, displays them and finances people who steal their food.

The world must cease to treat Gaza and the West Bank as test fields for military doctrine, propaganda and geopolitical indifference. The inhabitants of Palestine are not a failed experience. They are a besieged people, denied relentlessly, sovereignty. And again, they try – to feed their children, to bury their dead and to remain human in the face of dehumanization.

If the Netanyahu government can admit to arm the criminal gangs and still faces any consequences, the problem is not only Israel. It is us – the so -called international community that rewards cruelty and punishes survival.

What is necessary – urgently – are concrete actions to protect Palestinian life and protect the law in the Palestinian state before it is entirely deleted. The threats of recognizing a Palestinian state will simply not do the trick.

If the world continues to look away, it is not only Palestine that will be destroyed – it is the very credibility of international law, human rights and each moral principle that we claim to defend.

The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial position of Al Jazeera.