De Facto Occupation: Israel’s Security Zone Strategy

De Facto Occupation: Israel’s Security Zone Strategy

In recent months, the Israeli Defense Forces have been much taken by a term that augurs poorly for peaceful accord in the Middle East. “Security zones” are being seized in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria. Land is, for claimed reasons of self-defence, being appropriated with brazen assuredness. It is hard, however, to see this latest turn as anything other than a de facto military occupation, a situation that will prolong the crisis of vulnerab…

Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz said Israeli troops will remain in "security zones" in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely, according to the Associated Press, after Jerusalem unilaterally expanded its borders in a war sparked by the Palestinian terrorist movement Hamas's attack on the Jewish state on Oct. 7, 2023.

Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz said Israeli troops would remain in "security zones" in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely, after Tel Aviv unilaterally expanded its borders in a war sparked by an attack by the Palestinian terrorist movement Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. The AP reports. As if from a textbook Israel says it needs to hold the zones to prevent similar attacks, but occupying them looks like the textbook definition of a mil…