‘Brand’: Satellite images show the David Star carved in Gaza | Israel-Palestine News of Conflict
Zooming the newly published satellite images of what was once agricultural land in the northern gaza, the outline of what obviously seems to be David’s star, it is engraved in the ground.
The symbol of the Jewish faith and the State of Israel can be seen in the pictures of Beit Hanoon, areas of the northern gauze that has seen extensive struggles and losses for the Israeli army.
In addition to the star there are numbers 7979, a possible reference to the Israeli army 97. Battalion Netzah Yehuda.
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Netzah Yehuda Battalion, all male ultra-Orthodox unit, was reported that in January last year it was deployed from the occupied West Coast in Gaza and operated in Beit Hanoon.
Prior to the deployment, the battalion was charged with numerous violent crimes, including what some of the United States officials said it could be a rough violation of human rights, including the murder of unarmed Palestinians and torture and sexual abuse of prisoners in his detention.
Among the alleged victims of the battalion was Palestinian American in the 80s, Omar Abdulmajeed Asaadwho died during his arrest by Netzah Yehuda Battalion in January 2022.
After the US Government’s pressure, Israel agreed to pay the ASAAD family’s fee Later that year. However, as part of the payment, the Israeli government insisted that no one in Netzah Yehuda would be responsible for Asaad’s death.
Bad intentions
Netzah Yehuda Battalion made David’s star “for Google Maps, to see that they are here,” said Hamze Attar, Palestinian defense analyst, for Al Jazeera.
Attar said the law could be a response to former US President Joe Biden’s administration plans to sanction the battalion. In August, however, the US Ministry of the State ended the investigation of their own Leahye law laws, which prohibit Transmission of weapons in foreign military units included in the gross violation of human rights, after the objection of the Israeli government. The investigation was focused on Netzah Yehuda.
“We see what the absolute unpunishedness in the army that gives her everything she needs to destroy Palestinian life looks like,” said Elia Ayoub, researcher and author Bulletin about hauntology. “As in any genocide, those who begin to enjoy portraying their superiority often forcing their symbols to their victims. The Israeli army also uses religious figures that speak of this genocide of Palestinians and colonization of gauze as religious duties.”
Al Jazeera contacted the Israeli Ministry of Defense regarding the star of David engraved in northern Gaza, but did not receive an answer until the announcement.
An extensive pattern
David’s star is not the first symbol to leave Israeli forces. In Gaza, the paintings transferred to social media showed soldiers to set giant candles or draw Jewish symbols in the wreck of buildings. The soldiers have done so in southern Lebanon since Israel attacked in October.
“ [Israeli military] There are rabbis on Earth, and the soldiers brought menora and shofar to the battlefield, “Ayoub said.” This is not new. Now it’s just a lot more widespread. Israeli’s religious philosopher yeshayahu Leibowitz described these views as Judeo-Naziist in the 1990s, warning that it could become a norm if he didn’t stop. Unfortunately, he was right. “
On January 19th, the end of January brought the end, at least temporarily, the attacks of Israel on Gaza performed from the attack on Hamas in southern Israel on October 7, 2023. They killed 1,139 people and took about 250 people. The Israeli Subsequent War against Gaza killed at least 47,306 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded another 111,483 while Moving About 1.9 million of their 2.3 million people.
According to Jamona Van Den Hoek’s research Oregon and Corey Scher State University of the University of New York, 60 percent of all Gaza buildings have destroyed Israeli forces since the beginning of the war. In Beit Hanoon, the figure is 70 percent.
The question of the future of Gaza outside the war received added relevance last week after US President Donald Trump’s proposal to be Palestinian residents of the enclave to be “cleaned ”.
The forced shift of the entire population has been gauze for decades has been the cornerstone of the Israeli right.
The Israeli Finance Minister of Finance Bezalel Fair, who often spoke about his desire to re -establish Israeli settlements within Gaza, greeted Trump’s proposal, promised: “I will, with God’s help, work with the Prime Minister and the cabinet to secure the operating plan for there that as soon as possible. “
‘Property’
“Branding refers to ownership. It’s about marking your territory, “said Chris Artning, founder and director Creative semioticsCounseling specializes in the meaning of the brand symbol. “Branding originally came from a merchant who marked their products or farmers to mark their cattle to indicate ownership. Over time, this included the branding of the convicts and slaves. “
The carving of David’s star in the soil Beit Hanoon can be viewed as an act of symbolic violence, Arting said, referring to the violence that the symbol represents in a local context.
“In many ways,” artning continued, “it’s the branding of the country.”
