These civilian policies could all be immediately undermined by a security escalation, the official cautioned, and a breach of Israeli sovereignty by Gaza’s terror factions. Quantities of import and export traffic moving through Kerem Shalom Crossing with Israel have increased significantly, while in the past 12 months, the Erez border pedestrian crossing also saw a major increase. “People waited for this for 23 years, and no one saw them. The decision by Israel to recognize and grant legal status to some 9,000 Palestinians in Gaza, who until now lacked recognized IDs and could not even open bank accounts, was another step in this direction, said the official.
Limited hours of electricity are available, tap water is problematic, and medical services are inadequate - all results of Hamas’s decision to prioritize its military build-up over Gaza’s civilian needs. Still, mammoth challenges await, acknowledged the source, with Gaza’s infrastructure so badly underdeveloped. 1, Gazan employees with Israeli work permits will be placed under an organized employment system, similar to the one that is used by some 110,000 Palestinian employees from the West Bank who work in Israel and the estimated 30,000 Palestinians who work in Israeli communities in the West Bank. The next stage, he argued, would be to create regional investment in Gaza.įrom Aug. This can lead to investments in Gaza by Palestinians from Judea and Samaria, and from Israeli Arabs who may want to invest in factories,” he said. Developments in agriculture and fishing, and future development of industry, of bigger projects. “We’d like to see a Gazan economy with its own manufacturing. “We need someone who can correspond with us,” the official explained. Such steps are coordinated with the Palestinian Authority, specifically its Ministry for Civilian Affairs. Today, we facilitate the export of all vegetables and in large numbers,” said the source. We’d receive a new vegetable type for export from Gaza and that would be seen as dramatic. Until ‘Guardian of the Walls,’ despite the headline of Israel seeking an arrangement for Gaza, small steps were taken. “We are talking about a broad civil program. We want to be precise,” said the military source. “What’s our logic? We want to distinguish between civilians and terror organizations.
“We are looking at how this influences the extended family of the employee, not just the close family.” “Someone earning 30 to 60 shekels in Gaza a day is making 400 shekels a day in Israel, and sometimes 600,” said the official. “We know that Hamas does everything to exploit equipment and means that enter Gaza,” said the official, adding that Hamas could also send terrorists into Israel for attacks.Ī thorough screening mechanism was set up between the IDF’s Southern Command and the Shin Bet in order to prevent this from happening. This comes despite the fact that Israel must also be on alert to the use of civilian commodities that enter the Strip and that are often used by Hamas for military purposes. While fighting Hamas’s force build-up every day, the official said, Israel is allowing thousands of Gazans into Israel to work, while also promoting the development of factories in the Strip, fishing, agriculture, and imports and exports. Since the completion of “Operation Guardian of the Walls” in May 2021, Israel has taken unique steps to promote Gazan economic well-being, such as increasingly growing the number of Gazans with daily work permits in Israel, which is set to soon rise to 20,000. While Israel builds and replenishes its military deterrence against Hamas in Gaza, it also pursues a civilian economic policy - one that has changed since Hamas first took over Gaza in a violent coup in 2007, ousting its rival Fatah. He warned, however, that this objective is constantly undermined by the “existence of the Hamas terror organization all it does is prepare for war.” “We don’t want to have a war or round of escalation every year-not because we can’t but because it’s bad for development in our area and for the State of Israel,” an IDF official stated on July 26. (JNS) - A key goal of Israel’s defense establishment is to delay frequent war to the extent possible in order to give Israeli civilians extended periods of calm and to allow Israel’s economy to continue to develop.Īs part of that goal of conflict delay, the Israel Defense Force’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories Unit has been taking increasingly bold steps in the Gaza Strip in the past year to improve the economic situation of Gaza’s estimated 2.2 million civilians, thereby contributing to the stability of the region to a degree. View of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 12, 2022.
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