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Radio Al-Shams · 2025-11-11
Economist Omar Shaban said the Palestinian condition has continued to deteriorate for years and worsened further after the October 7 attack, with the world now making decisions for Palestinians amid the absence of a unified Palestinian vision and position. He added that Gaza is effectively being run through a new U.S.-led administration with an international character, warning of plans that would divide the Strip and forcibly redistribute its population, and stressing that recovery requires Palestinian unity and rebuilding the Palestinian person through education and elections.
Economist Omar Shaban said the Palestinian condition has continued to deteriorate for years and worsened further after the October 7 attack, with the world now making decisions for Palestinians amid the absence of a unified Palestinian vision and position. He added that Gaza is effectively being ru…
Global economist Omar Shaban said that the Palestinian situation is witnessing “a continued deterioration for years,” and that this deterioration deepened further after the October 7 attack, noting that “the world has begun deciding on behalf of the Palestinians in the absence of a unified Palestinian vision and position.”
He added, in a phone interview on the program First News on Radio Al-Shams, that “Gaza is now being run through a new American administration headed by General Brad Cooper, who is the director of the Civil Security Coordination Committee located in Kiryat Gat. This committee includes more than twenty international institutions and sixteen countries,” explaining that “this means that the administration of the Gaza Strip has become international as a matter of de facto reality, and this situation may continue for many years.”
He continued that “the political vacuum resulting from the absence of the European Union, the Arab League, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has opened the way for the American and Israeli administrations to impose their joint vision in full on the situation in Gaza,” considering that “the existence of a unified Palestinian position could have changed the equation at least partially.”
Shaban stressed that “if there had been a minimum level of unity and a common position, the Palestinians would have been able to coordinate with international blocs and exert pressure in confronting this imposed vision,” noting that “the division among the Palestinian leaderships, whether in Gaza or the West Bank, leaves the Palestinians in their weakest state in the face of the current plan for administering Gaza.”
Regarding reports speaking of suspicious reconstruction projects, Shaban said: “There is an American plan that includes establishing new neighborhoods for Palestinians near Rafah, in areas controlled by Israel, and housing there will be made available to those selected according to security criteria, without allowing their original residents to return,” explaining that “this scheme means the effective partition of Gaza and the forcible redistribution of the population.”
He added that “approximately 58% of the Strip’s area has come under direct Israeli occupation, while around two million Palestinians are being crammed into less than half of the original area,” describing the humanitarian scene as “catastrophic by every measure,” saying: “Imagine tens of thousands living in tents on the Gaza shore without shelter or protection, and with winter approaching, the suffering will double in a tragic way.”
Shaban believed that “the human capacity to endure is limited, and that the Palestinians are living through a tragedy beyond human capacity,” but stressed that “hope for the future requires patience and work to rebuild the Palestinian person before anything else.”
He added: “We must learn from the experiences of history, such as Germany and Japan after the Second World War, which rose from total destruction thanks to focusing on rebuilding the individual and society,” explaining that “the Palestinians must now focus their efforts on education, holding elections within two years, and giving young people the opportunity to determine their future.”
He concluded by saying: “We need to be silent for a while and give time its due, for politicians change, and Netanyahu will not remain forever, just as the balances of international power do not remain fixed. But what matters is that we preserve our ability to remain steadfast and rebuild from within.”
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