All that Israeli propaganda about new luxury seafront property in Gaza…
You’re going to love that beach house that has no electricity or running water or sewage or garbage collection or an accessible road or an easy route to a store or a hospital…
If they built the beach houses they would run power and water to them. Possibly through that raised road that goes right through the middle of Gaza now.
It would only connect to the homes of occupiers though.
And then whenever the Gazans did anything to threaten the luxury homes or utility corridor, oh what a shame, need to push them back further to establish more of a safe buffer zone.
Oh look, that freed up some more room to build luxury homes!
That sounds pretty expensive to do and even more expensive to maintain considering what’s around it. I sure wouldn’t trust that road to remain structurally sound indefinitely with all the water and power running through it.
What they’re describing is a real phenomenon in the West Bank, though. Not that they necessarily run all of their utilities within/alongside a single road, but that Israeli settlers will strategically isolate Palestinian communities by building infrastructure that separates them.
The basic idea is that settlers will pick an attractive hill to build a settlement. They’ll also build a road leading to just that one settlement, and utilities which supply just that one settlement. Palestinians can’t freely cross Israeli territory, they have to cross through specific checkpoints. So they couldn’t cross the road or access any of those utilities without risking violence/death.
On one side of the road you might have a small Palestinian farming community, on the other side a larger town that they sell to. With the road, the farmers can no longer transport livestock/produce to the town to sell, and the Israelis just dammed the stream they used for irrigation, too. So the choice becomes either pack up and leave, or die in poverty. The larger community loses a source of food, and if their situation becomes too precarious as a result, they’ll pack up and leave as well.
Then with those communities gone, oh look, more room for settlements.
Most city roads have lots of electrical wiring and pipes runjing under them. I wouldn’t be surprised if they constructed it with that possibility in mind since it is clearly there to separate north and south Gaza and to do so they would need to build some infrastructure along the road’s length.
I am clearly speculating though, but it would make sense based on Israel’s actions so far.
All that Israeli propaganda about new luxury seafront property in Gaza…
You’re going to love that beach house that has no electricity or running water or sewage or garbage collection or an accessible road or an easy route to a store or a hospital…
If they built the beach houses they would run power and water to them. Possibly through that raised road that goes right through the middle of Gaza now.
It would only connect to the homes of occupiers though.
And then whenever the Gazans did anything to threaten the luxury homes or utility corridor, oh what a shame, need to push them back further to establish more of a safe buffer zone.
Oh look, that freed up some more room to build luxury homes!
Rinse and repeat.
That sounds pretty expensive to do and even more expensive to maintain considering what’s around it. I sure wouldn’t trust that road to remain structurally sound indefinitely with all the water and power running through it.
What they’re describing is a real phenomenon in the West Bank, though. Not that they necessarily run all of their utilities within/alongside a single road, but that Israeli settlers will strategically isolate Palestinian communities by building infrastructure that separates them.
The basic idea is that settlers will pick an attractive hill to build a settlement. They’ll also build a road leading to just that one settlement, and utilities which supply just that one settlement. Palestinians can’t freely cross Israeli territory, they have to cross through specific checkpoints. So they couldn’t cross the road or access any of those utilities without risking violence/death.
On one side of the road you might have a small Palestinian farming community, on the other side a larger town that they sell to. With the road, the farmers can no longer transport livestock/produce to the town to sell, and the Israelis just dammed the stream they used for irrigation, too. So the choice becomes either pack up and leave, or die in poverty. The larger community loses a source of food, and if their situation becomes too precarious as a result, they’ll pack up and leave as well.
Then with those communities gone, oh look, more room for settlements.
Most city roads have lots of electrical wiring and pipes runjing under them. I wouldn’t be surprised if they constructed it with that possibility in mind since it is clearly there to separate north and south Gaza and to do so they would need to build some infrastructure along the road’s length.
I am clearly speculating though, but it would make sense based on Israel’s actions so far.