It becomes more difficult every day to understand the reasons for this rocket war...

It becomes more difficult every day to understand the reasons for this rocket and bombing war between Gaza and Israel. Because it's been going on for weeks, with dead and wounded on both sides, even if it is increasingly clear that no one, neither the Palestinians nor the Israelis, né Hamas né Netanyahu, he really wants to get to an open confrontation. Yet we are here, with hundreds of rockets departing from the Strip and now having a range that is double that of a few years ago, and the fighters of the Jewish State that level buildings and hit strategic targets.

With the inevitable drama of civilians killed, including women and children. With the aftermath of international tensions. The task of understanding becomes even more complex if we take into account the signs of "détente" (term that in these parts, as you can see, should be used with caution) detected in recent times. Hamas has tried to keep more radical Islamist groups at bay, still convinced that provocation towards Israel is the best way to claim Palestinian rights. And its diplomats do not stop negotiating with Egypt to keep the very fragile ceasefire alive, at the same time, loosen the grip in which the Israeli blockade holds the two million inhabitants of the Strip.

Israel had also made its own moves. The transit regime had been eased in view of Ramadan, started yesterday. The Palestinian fishing area had been expanded since 12 a 15 nautical miles, the highest since the embargo came into force, and then be reduced to 6 after the usual volley of rockets. Still in these hours the two alleged contenders, beyond the occasional rhetoric, they try to stop themselves. Israel has not yet brought ground troops to the border with Gaza and there has been no mobilization of reservists. Hamas does not raise its tone and, in curious harmony with Israel, rather it tends to reject responsibility on Islamic Jihad, gruppo radicale appoggiato dall’Iran con cui intrattiene da sempre rapporti a tratti amichevoli e a tratti burrascosi. But it is possible that someone could launch hundreds of rockets from the Strip without Hamas knowing or intervening?

Except that people really die, we might think we are inside a giant game of mirrors, where nothing is as it seems and no one is really who they say they are. Only one certainty remains. Our world, sensitive to the cause of any minority, he cannot continue to be so indifferent towards the Palestinian cause. We know that Hamas is not the answer and that Abu Mazen's Palestinian Authority is more an organization of division than of government. On one and the other, and their inadequacy, Part of the blame lies for the ease with which Netanyahu is allowed to apply racist militarist policies.

But whatever you think about it, it is undeniable that the two million Palestinians of Gaza cannot remain closed in a piece of land that is now between the Indian reservation and the prison. In the West Bank the problem is the continued erosion of Palestinian space through illegal Israeli settlements. But in the Strip the problem is more basic: survive in barely human conditions. There's no point wondering, in this situation, what will happen tomorrow. If nothing changes while the UN warns us that from 2020 the Strip will be "unlivable", we will have the inevitable repetition of the past. More missiles, other bombings, other deaths. Israel may also believe that we can continue like this: it gained territory and swept the idea of ​​two states from the diplomatic table, why not? But it's convenient for the rest of the world? We all agree?

Fulvio Scaglione

http://www.bocchescucite.org/fulvio-scaglione-la-striscia-di-gaza-invivibile-anche-per-lonu/

source – http://www.centrostudifederici.org/gaza-crimini-punti-interrogativi/