The port in Gaza is Israeli-American plot to “force residents to leave the Gaza Strip” and “annex
Palestinian political commentator Kamal Zakarneh: “The naval passageway that the US has created in the Gaza Strip began to transfer a certain amount of aid, aid for the sake of appearances. I think this is a prelude for something much more dangerous than this so-called humanitarian aid. There is a joint Israeli-American policy of taking control, and their goal is to perpetuate the control over the Gaza Strip and the control over the lives of the Gaza Strip residents… and everything connected to the life necessities there, starting with closing the land passageways… and leaving the naval passageway as the only opening to the Gaza Strip. There is great concern that they will force the residents through economic, security, and social pressure to leave and empty the Gaza Strip of the residents, and annex it to the 1948 territories (i.e., Israel).”
[Official PA TV, May 19, 2024]
Zakarneh said this during the 2023 Gaza war, during which Israel sent humanitarian aid to the residents of Gaza. Aid which was often confiscated by Hamas and never reached the civilians.