As human rights organizations amass reports on Israel committing genocide in Gaza, Israeli society is producing a wall of denial, separating itself from the catastrophic reality in Gaza. Nothing is more evident of that than a new report of a seawater desalination plant doubling as an Israeli army ‘resort’ in Gaza.
On Monday, Israeli news website Ynet published a piece in Hebrew by their military correspondent Yoav Zeitoun, titled “Desalination facility and holiday resort with café; Documentation: This is how IDF [Israeli military] is preparing for prolonged stay in Gaza”.
Zeitoun, who was embedded with the military, visited the resort, which is located near the beach in the western part of north Gaza. Though the exact location of the ‘resort’ is not revealed, Zeitoun does mention Jabalia – the area in north Gaza where Israel has launched a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign in recent months – as being nearby. ….more
