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INSS chief Hayman says Israel's army now holds 65 percent of Gaza
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The Israeli army has expanded its hold on the Gaza Strip from 53 percent when the twenty-point document was issued to roughly 65 percent today, Tamir Hayman wrote Wednesday in an analysis published by Israel's N12 and the Institute for National Security Studies.
Hayman directs the INSS — the Tel Aviv think tank closest to Israel's security establishment — and formerly headed military intelligence; his numbers and his prescriptions are that establishment's view, not a neutral accounting.
He describes a Strip already carved into three zones: a "red" 40 percent holding some two million Palestinians under Hamas control, a "green" half held by the army, and an "orange" tenth the army took beyond the yellow line since the ceasefire.
His proposal is to trade land for verified disarmament zone by zone, and to build in the orange zone a "New Gaza" — housing for residents who pass what he calls security screening, under an international stabilization force, as a buffer between the two populations.
Hayman's franker admission runs the other way: Israel, he writes, has effectively outsourced its national security policy to Washington, which now sets it, and clause 19 of the Trump framework — a political process toward a Palestinian state — is the key to widening the Abraham Accords.
He also records that Hamas has fired no rocket at Israel since the ceasefire, while the army has stepped up assassinations of its commanders.
