Residents of those confined zones would be under constant real-time AI surveillance of phones, social media, and physical movement by the firm Palantir, which has been allegedly aiding Israel’s genocide. The overwhelming majority of Gazans would refuse to move into those areas under such conditions.
It’s no surprise the Americans and Israelis are expecting this “alternative safe community” to shelter merely a few thousand of the over two million people in Gaza. New Rafah is deliberately unimplementable, and Israel is counting on this. It would basically be a Potemkin village; a façade meant to cover up the continuation of the genocide.
This is a common tactic in violent dictatorships and genocide zones. Myanmar did a similar trick in 2023 to whitewash its Rohingya genocide, with the Burmese government building two “model villages” for 314 Rohingya families with tiny dwellings that have no bathrooms, kitchens, or food arrangements, merely as a fig leaf to cover up its atrocities, while over a million Rohingyas are still refugees in Bangladesh and neighbouring countries.
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