[[{"content_id":410689,"content_number":0,"portal_id":2,"lang_id":"en","content_title":"US plan for a divided Gaza cements long-term occupation, trapping 2 million Palestinians in ruins: Report​","content_rtitr":"","content_short_title":null,"content_summary":"The US is drafting a plan to entrench Gaza’s division, creating a fortified “green zone” under “joint Israeli–international control,” while relegating most Palestinians to a devastated “red zone” left in ruins and neglect, a report says.","content_summary_fill":1,"content_body":"According to internal documents obtained by The Guardian and sources briefed on US deliberations, Washington is working towards institutionalizing a partition of Gaza along the Israeli-imposed &ldquo;yellow line.&rdquo;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nUnder the blueprint, foreign troops would be deployed alongside Israeli forces in the east, while nearly the entire Palestinian population remains displaced west of it, the daily reported on Friday.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOne senior American official, acknowledging the depth of Washington&rsquo;s ambitions, admitted, &ldquo;Ideally, you would want to make it all whole, right? But that&rsquo;s aspirational. It&rsquo;s going to take some time. It&rsquo;s not going to be easy.&rdquo;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe revelation sharply contradicted earlier American pledges, including President Donald Trump&rsquo;s own assurances, that a 20-point so-called ceasefire scheme announced by the chief executive earlier this year would pave the way to full Palestinian governance across Gaza.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nInstead, Washington&rsquo;s planning documents pointed to a fractured, semi-occupied coastal sliver, where reconstruction is limited to the Israeli-controlled sector, while the rest of Gaza is effectively abandoned.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe United States has been cycling through back-to-back plans, from fenced &ldquo;alternative safe communities (ASC)&rdquo; to a &ldquo;green-zone enclave model,&rdquo; all devised without Palestinian involvement and without addressing more than two years of Washington-backed Israeli genocide that Gaza has suffered since October 2023. Even humanitarian agencies, long alarmed by US proposals, were not informed of the abrupt scrapping of the ASC model.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nObservers say, with no credible roadmap for Israeli withdrawal, international peacekeeping, or large-scale rebuilding, Gaza risks being locked into a &ldquo;not war but not peace&rdquo; paralysis.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis, they note, would pave the way for a divided territory under constant threat of Israeli attacks, stripped of Palestinian self-rule, and starved of the reconstruction needed for even minimal recovery.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTrump&rsquo;s 20-point scheme hinges on, what he calls, an &ldquo;international stabilization force (ISF)&rdquo; mandated by the UN Security Council.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHowever, Washington refuses to place a single American trooper on the ground or finance the reconstruction Palestinians desperately need, the paper wrote.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nEuropean nations were drafted into early versions of the plan, including as many as 1,500 British troops and 1,000 French forces, but diplomats from allied capitals dismissed the proposals as unrealistic and politically suicidal, it added.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAccording to the report, after long, bloody missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, few leaders are willing to send troops into Gaza&rsquo;s shattered landscape. One source described the plan in blunt terms as &ldquo;delusional.&rdquo;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe documents, The Guardian revealed, also envision Jordan sending hundreds of infantry forces and thousands of police officers, despite King Abdullah&rsquo;s explicitly rejecting any deployment.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWith more than half the Jordanian population of Palestinian descent, such participation would be explosive domestically and a direct threat to Jordan&rsquo;s internal stability, it said.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nA US &ldquo;concept of operation&rdquo; states that foreign troops would operate only within the &ldquo;green zone.&rdquo; None would enter the Palestinian-held western side, where the Hamas resistance movement is reasserting control.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe &ldquo;enclave&rdquo; would begin with just a few hundred troops and slowly expand to a force of 20,000, integrating with Israeli forces along the dividing line.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAccording to the report, the parallels to the United States disastrous invasions of the 2000s are, therefore, unavoidable. In both wars, US-created &ldquo;green zones&rdquo; became symbols of occupation, shielded by blast walls, while chaos and destruction consumed the surrounding cities.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nUS planners openly hope that limited reconstruction in the green zone will &ldquo;attract&rdquo; desperate Palestinians into the Israeli-controlled area. As one US official put it, &ldquo;People will say &lsquo;hey we want that,&rsquo; and so it evolves in that direction. No one&rsquo;s talking about a military operation to force it.&rdquo;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nExperts commenting on the report said the blueprint envisages a future for Palestinians conditioned on accepting the Israeli regime&rsquo;s authority, not on justice, sovereignty, or the right to rebuild their own homeland.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe report came as more than 80 percent of Gaza&rsquo;s infrastructure, including nearly every school and hospital, lies in ruins.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nZionist regime continues to block even basic aid items. Tent poles, water filters, and construction materials remain barred under &ldquo;dual use&rdquo; claims.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAround 1.5 million Palestinians still wait for emergency shelter items, and more than two million are crushed into the narrow territory that the US plan designates as the red zone.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","content_html":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">According to internal documents obtained by The Guardian and sources briefed on US deliberations, Washington is working towards institutionalizing a partition of Gaza along the Israeli-imposed &ldquo;yellow line.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Under the blueprint, foreign troops would be deployed alongside Israeli forces in the east, while nearly the entire Palestinian population remains displaced west of it, the daily reported on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">One senior American official, acknowledging the depth of Washington&rsquo;s ambitions, admitted, &ldquo;Ideally, you would want to make it all whole, right? But that&rsquo;s aspirational. It&rsquo;s going to take some time. It&rsquo;s not going to be easy.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">The revelation sharply contradicted earlier American pledges, including President Donald Trump&rsquo;s own assurances, that a 20-point so-called ceasefire scheme announced by the chief executive earlier this year would pave the way to full Palestinian governance across Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Instead, Washington&rsquo;s planning documents pointed to a fractured, semi-occupied coastal sliver, where reconstruction is limited to the Israeli-controlled sector, while the rest of Gaza is effectively abandoned.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">The United States has been cycling through back-to-back plans, from fenced &ldquo;alternative safe communities (ASC)&rdquo; to a &ldquo;green-zone enclave model,&rdquo; all devised without Palestinian involvement and without addressing more than two years of Washington-backed Israeli genocide that Gaza has suffered since October 2023. Even humanitarian agencies, long alarmed by US proposals, were not informed of the abrupt scrapping of the ASC model.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Observers say, with no credible roadmap for Israeli withdrawal, international peacekeeping, or large-scale rebuilding, Gaza risks being locked into a &ldquo;not war but not peace&rdquo; paralysis.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">This, they note, would pave the way for a divided territory under constant threat of Israeli attacks, stripped of Palestinian self-rule, and starved of the reconstruction needed for even minimal recovery.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Trump&rsquo;s 20-point scheme hinges on, what he calls, an &ldquo;international stabilization force (ISF)&rdquo; mandated by the UN Security Council.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">However, Washington refuses to place a single American trooper on the ground or finance the reconstruction Palestinians desperately need, the paper wrote.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">European nations were drafted into early versions of the plan, including as many as 1,500 British troops and 1,000 French forces, but diplomats from allied capitals dismissed the proposals as unrealistic and politically suicidal, it added.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">According to the report, after long, bloody missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, few leaders are willing to send troops into Gaza&rsquo;s shattered landscape. One source described the plan in blunt terms as &ldquo;delusional.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">The documents, The Guardian revealed, also envision Jordan sending hundreds of infantry forces and thousands of police officers, despite King Abdullah&rsquo;s explicitly rejecting any deployment.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">With more than half the Jordanian population of Palestinian descent, such participation would be explosive domestically and a direct threat to Jordan&rsquo;s internal stability, it said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">A US &ldquo;concept of operation&rdquo; states that foreign troops would operate only within the &ldquo;green zone.&rdquo; None would enter the Palestinian-held western side, where the Hamas resistance movement is reasserting control.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">The &ldquo;enclave&rdquo; would begin with just a few hundred troops and slowly expand to a force of 20,000, integrating with Israeli forces along the dividing line.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">According to the report, the parallels to the United States disastrous invasions of the 2000s are, therefore, unavoidable. In both wars, US-created &ldquo;green zones&rdquo; became symbols of occupation, shielded by blast walls, while chaos and destruction consumed the surrounding cities.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">US planners openly hope that limited reconstruction in the green zone will &ldquo;attract&rdquo; desperate Palestinians into the Israeli-controlled area. As one US official put it, &ldquo;People will say &lsquo;hey we want that,&rsquo; and so it evolves in that direction. No one&rsquo;s talking about a military operation to force it.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Experts commenting on the report said the blueprint envisages a future for Palestinians conditioned on accepting the Israeli regime&rsquo;s authority, not on justice, sovereignty, or the right to rebuild their own homeland.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">The report came as more than 80 percent of Gaza&rsquo;s infrastructure, including nearly every school and hospital, lies in ruins.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Zionist regime continues to block even basic aid items. Tent poles, water filters, and construction materials remain barred under &ldquo;dual use&rdquo; claims.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Around 1.5 million Palestinians still wait for emergency shelter items, and more than two million are crushed into the narrow territory that the US plan designates as the red zone.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","content_source":"","content_url":"","content_date_start":"2025-11-15 10:07:10","content_date_event":"2025-11-15 10:07:10","content_date_event_start":null,"content_date_event_end":null,"content_show_title_slider":1,"content_date_last_edit":"2025-11-15 10:08:42","content_date_register":"2025-11-15 10:08:42","content_columns":0,"content_show_img":1,"content_show_details":0,"content_show_related_img":0,"content_show_slider":1,"content_comment":1,"content_score":0,"tag_id":0,"score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"uid":43,"eid":0,"attach_title":"US plan for a divided Gaza cements long-term occupation, trapping 2 million Palestinians in ruins: Report​","attaches":[{"sizes":{"150":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202511\/561689_2936762466_150_84.webp","300":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202511\/561689_2936762466_300_169.webp","400":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202511\/561689_2936762466_400_225.webp","600":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202511\/561689_2936762466_600_338.webp","900":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202511\/561689_2936762466_864_486.jpg","1200":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202511\/561689_2936762466_864_486.jpg"},"ext":"jpg","file_media":1,"token":2936762466,"files":{"original":{"url":".\/file\/2\/attach\/202511\/561689_2936762466.jpg","width":864,"height":486,"size":0}}}]}]]