The Gaza piece plan: how to partition Gaza

JVL Introduction

Jonathan Whittall, a South African humanitarian leader and political analyst, was a senior UN official in Palestine between 2022 and 2025.

Here he provides details of how the Gaza peace plan is intended to work, a plan that leaves Israel’s occupation “not only intact but emboldened”.

It looks as if only Palestinians, pre-selected to live in “gated communities” where approved aid distribution centres will be located, will be eligible for any kind of shelter or resources.

Those who enter these “zones of managed dispossession’ will be explicitly barred from returning to the off-limits and blockaded “red zone”. Those remaining there will be presumed to be “Hamas supporters”, ineligible for any kind of protection or provision.

It is, of course, all in utter violation of the 4th Geneva Convention and international law more generally…

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This article was originally published by Al Jazeera on Sat 22 Nov 2025. Read the original here.