Israel’s war in Gaza will not be limited to any one area and will expand into other parts of Gaza, Ammar Hijazi, assistant minister for multilateral affairs in the Palestinian ministry of foreign affairs, has said.
“We think that they are doing it in stages. The north is just the beginning,” he told Al Jazeera.
“They are going to make sure that Gaza, especially the northern and eastern parts, are unlivable and squeeze the population into a very limited geographical area in Gaza, pushing them to leave and be forcibly displaced from Palestine,” Hijazi added.
When asked about the what post-war Gaza looks like, he said the priority was to first end the war in Gaza.
“The nature of things is that we should have only one government that rules over the occupied Palestinian territories. And that government should come according to what people choose,” he said.
“And the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people is the Palestinian Liberation Oganization … thus the Palestinian government can be determined as such,” Hijazi noted. “But now is not the time to discuss these things.”
Source: Aljazeera