The Israel government approved the plans on Monday so that the forces capture the entire Gaza Strip and remain in the territory for an amount of time not specified, two Israeli officials said to Associated Press. The plans appear to greatly expand Israel’s operations in the Palestinian territory devastated by warand they are likely to bring a fierce international opposition.
The Israeli cabinet ministers approved the plan in an early morning vote, just after the Israeli military chief said that the army was calling tens of thousands of reserve soldiers by assault extended to the strip.
The news occurred hours after a Sunday Houthi missile pointed to Ben-Gurion airport of Tel Aviv for the first time from the war, stopping flights and hurting four people slightly. Israeli officials quickly promised to respond.
Israel’s expansion plan, that officials told him that the AP is Meean to help the country’s war objectives of defeating Hamas and freeing the hostages still heroes in Gaza, would push hundreds of thoughts and the Palestinians an aldrady, exacerbatingy Terrible crisis In the enclave.
In a video message posted on Monday on social networks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not confirm the intention that the Israel Army took control of the entire strip, but said the operation would be “intensive.”
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The European Union was among the first international entities to express concern about the perspective of the Israeli Operations extended in Gaza, with the spokesman Anouar the Restemt, “according to the French news agency AFP.
From a stop the fire between Israel and Hamas Collapsed in mid -March With a renewed Israeli assault, Israel’s defense forces have unleashed fierce strikes in the territory that have killed hundreds. The IDF have captured stripes of territory and now controls approximately half of Gaza. Before the truce ended, Israel stopped all humanitarian aid in Gaza, including food, fuel and water, triggering what is believers to be the worst humanitarian crisis in almost 19 months of war.
The prohibition of aid has caused a broad hunger and the shortage has triggered the looting, according to the help agencies working in the enclave.
Netanyahu says that the population of Gaza “will move”
Israeli officials said the plan included the “capture of the strip and possession of territories.”
With the plan, officials said Israel also wants to prevent Hamas from distributing humanitarian aid in the enclave that is controlled for almost two decades, which Israel says that it strengthens its government over Gaza. Israeli officials have accused Hamas or maintaining help materials to themselves, to reinforce their abilities. The plan also includes more powerful attacks against Hamas’ objectives, officials said.
They added that Israel was in contact with several countries about President Trump’s plan for the United States to “take over” of Gaza And relocate its population of approximately 2 million Palestinians. Israeli officials have said that it will imply “voluntary emigration”, but the suggestion that so many civilians could be transferred outside the territory have caused the condemnation of Israel’s allies in Europe, and their Arab neighbors, whom Trump said he would take the relocated masses.
In his video message on Monday, Netanyahu said that the “population of Gaza will move, by their own protection,” without offering details.
When asked Monday about the Israeli plans, the spokesman for the United States National Security Council, Brian Hughes, said that President Trump remained “committed to ensuring the immediate release of hostages and the end of the Hamas rule in Gaza”, reiterating the position of the White House that “Hamas has the exclusive responsibility of this conflict and by the resumption or hostilities.”
One of the Israeli officials told the AP that the plan would be implemented gradually. Both officials spoke about anonymity because they were discussing secret military plans.
Israel has tried during the week to increase the pressure on Hamas to show more flexibility in the high fire negotiations. But international mediators trying to bring to a new agreement have fought to do so. Israel’s measures, most ongoing strikes and the full aid block and other materials that enter Gaza, do not seem to have remote Hamas from their negotiation positions. The group, designated for a long time a terrorist organization of Israel, the United States and the European Union, has demanded that Israel accept a complete retirement of Gaza as part of any durable fire.
The high the previous fire was destined to bring the parties to negotiate the end of the war, but that goal has been a repeated conflict point in the conversations between Israel and Hamas. Israel says he won to agree to end the war until Hamas is defeated.
Israel’s announcement of an expansion of military operations enraged the families of Israeli and traninal hostages. The Hostage Families Forum, which supports families, said on Monday that the plan puts all hostages at risk and urged Israel’s decision makers to ensure an agreement that prioritizes hostages, since many axis 24 OA who Israeli officials believe they are still alive.
At a meeting of the Israeli legislators committee on Monday, Einav Zangaukeer, whose son Matan is among the hostages that are still in Gaza, asked the soldiers to “not report for the reserve service for moral and ethical reasons.”
Israeli officials did not neglect details of how the plan seeks to prevent Hamas from participating in the distribution of help. One said the ministers had approved “the aid distribution option”, without elaborating.
Private security to control Gaza Aid?
According to an internal memorandum distributed among the aid slurry and seen by the AP, Israel has told the United Nations that it will use private security companies to control the distribution of help within Gaza. The UN, in a statement on Sunday, said it would not participate in the plan as it was presented, saying that it violates its basic principles.
The memorandum, sent to the aid organizations on Sunday, detailed notes of a meeting between the Israeli defense agency in charge of coordinating help for Gaza, Cogat and the UN.
According to Cogat’s planned plan, all the help would enter Gaza through the Sharem Southern Sharem crossing, including approximately 60 trucks per day, although the content of the convoys was not made access to help. People in. Previously, the UN and other aid suppliers have said that hundreds of trucks per day are needed to bring food and other vital materials to Gaza.
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The memorandum said that the aid will be distributed in the logistics centers administered by private security companies, and that facial recognition would be used to identify the Palestinians in the centers and alerts of SMS would be used to notify people of help in the Isa Conid People area.
Humanitarian workers say that the plan to centralize help, instead of delivering it to the Palestinians where they are, will move to more people. The fight has already displaced more than 90% of the population of Gaza, or several times, and turned a large part of Gaza into an inhabitable lunar landscape.
The UN said the plan would leave large parts of the population, including the most vulnerable, without supplies. He said the plan “appears designed to reinforce the control of the elements that support life as a pressure tactic as part of a military strategy.”
In a statement on Monday, Hamas said he firmly rejected the Israeli plan to control the distribution of aid, qualifying it from a plan “to convert aid into a tool for political blackmail or hold it to the conditions of Israel,” which said “constitutes a violation.”
The memorandum says that the United States government has expressed a clear support for Israel’s plan, but it is not clear who would provide funds for private military companies or help. Cogat and the United States embassy in Jerusalem did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Israeli officials have repeatedly denied a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and said there is enough food in the territory, blaming Hamas for not distributing it to civilians.
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Earlier this week, Associated Press forced Document boxes on the Conerns of the groups that the help distribution centers could end up permanently displacing the Palestinians and forcing them to live in “de facto internment conditions.”
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Israel launched its war in Gaza in response to the terrorist attack of October 7, 2023, led by Hamas, against southern Israel, the duration that 1,200 people were killed and 251 were tasks as hostages back to Gaza. The Israeli offensive has killed more than 52,000 people in Gaza, many of them women and children, according to Palestinian health officials in the territory governed by Hamas, who do not distinguish between combatants and civilians.
Israel held the duration of Gaza a war in 1967, but withdrew the troops and colonists of the enclave in 2005. Two years later, Hamas taught and has controlled the territory since then.