Despite the polls steadily showing that the majority wishes to end the conflict and the release of hostages, he insists on the plan supported by far -right government officials to continue the war on its total occupation, its utter displacement.
In addition, Israel is intended to raise the hostage issue “at the heart of the world agenda,” said the head of the Gideon Saar diplomat, as an extraordinary UN Security Council meeting is expected to be held today.
And while the pressure facing his government is facing an end to the armed conflict and closing an agreement to secure the release of hostages that had been abducted on October 7, 2023, Monday, the Israeli prime minister announced that he would “give him” guidelines for the week.
Addressing his cabinet, Mr. Netanyahu announced that he would convene a “special meeting” this week, possibly today, to “give instructions” to the army “on how to achieve the three targets of the war we have set”.
“We are in the middle of an intensive war, in which we secured very important successes, historical, as we did not divide (…), we must continue to be united,” he said. He reminded that the “goals of war” are to “defeat the enemy”, “liberate our hostages” and “guarantee that Gaza will no longer raise a threat to Israel”.
Last night, channel 11 said this meeting will take place today.
Jerusalem Post, citing a source in the office of Prime Minister Netanyahu, who did not name, said that the head of the government has “made the decision to occupy the entire Gaza Strip”, and to “carry out businesses in zones where they are held.” Similar information, also citing an anonymous source, was reported by channel 12.
Who react to Netanyahu plans
Reacting, the Palestinian Authority adorned the “leaks for Gaza Occupation” and called on the international community to “intervene urgently to prevent its implementation, whether it is a form of pressure or a tranquil shot, in order to determine the reactions at international level”.
In a war against Hamas, after the military arm of the Palestinian Islamist movement launched an unprecedented raid on the southern part of Israel on October 7, 2023, the Israeli government is facing increasing international pressure to end it.
Nearly 600 former Israeli security mechanism officials, including Mosad executives (espionage) and Sin Beet (spy), appealed to US President Donald Trump yesterday to push Mr Netanyahu to put them in the
“Stop the war in Gaza!”, The letter encourages the signature of many of the most important heads of security services, former generals and other officers of various bodies.
Mr Netanyahu “leads Israel to its destruction and hostages to their death”, denounced the forum of families, the main collectivity of the hostage relatives.
“For 22 months, she has been selling public opinion the illusion that military pressure and intensive battles will bring back hostages,” but “this is just a lie, the deception of the public,” the forum was overwhelmed.
At the same time, it remains unclear whether the Israeli government’s approach is in line with that of the US president’s special envoy to the Middle East. Steve Whitkov spent three hours on Saturday with Israeli hostage families.
“We have a plan to end the war and come back,” Witkov allegedly said, noting that “someone will be to blame” if the rest of the living hostages do not return to Israel alive. His team did not provide further information on the statements of the special envoy.
Palestinians and hostages calls for food
Of the 251 people, who had been abducted on October 7, 2023, the Palestinian pockets remain 49, but 27 were declared dead by the Israeli army, after two ceasefire agreements, which allowed the release of the rest.
The publication last week by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, three videos, depicting two Israeli hostages, exhilarating, sparked intense emotional reactions to Israel and rekindled the dialogue of the need to close.
Last Sunday, Netanyahu called for the help of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Committee (DES) to “offer food” as well as “medical care” to hostages.
For his part, Israeli President Isaac Hertzog said through X that he had asked the President of the PSE Miriana Spoliaric, whose international organization is leading to take action “immediately”. The ICCs, which has been seeking access to the hostages since October 2023, has avoided making any comment so far.
So far, Hamas forbids humanitarian organizations from having any access to hostages.
In contrast, Hamas claimed to open “humanitarian corridors” to pass “food and medicines” in the siege of Palestinian pockets, where the population is threatened, according to the UN, by a “generalized famine”.
The International Community is pressure on the Israeli government, which does not allow for aid deliveries to the enclave, except in quantities that are inadequate by the organization, to open the cannulas.
“Preventing civilians from accessing food can be a war crime, if not a crime against humanity,” the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights commented yesterday.
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Through local traders and controlled trafficking, Israel answers
Israel will allow the gradual and controlled product entry into Gaza through local merchants, Cogat, the Israeli military service that coordinates support, said today.
“A mechanism was approved to gradually and control the entry of goods through the private sector in Gaza,” Cogat’s statement said.
“The goal is to increase the volume of assistance entering the Gaza Strip and at the same time reduce the dependence on UN assistance and international organizations,” the service said.
This measure was taken “after the Council of Ministers’ decision to expand humanitarian aid and after a preparatory work carried out by security services”.
“To put this mechanism into operation, the security system has approved a limited number of local traders on the basis of strict security criteria and controls,” Cogat said.
The payment for the goods “will be made exclusively by bank orders, which will be monitored and controlled”.
“Approved goods include basic food products, food for babies, fruits, vegetables and hygiene,” according to Cogat.
All merchandise will be subjected to strict control by the competent authority of the Ministry of Defense before entering the Gaza Strip, the Israeli -American supervision underlines.
Yesterday, Sunday, Hamas has announced that she is ready to tune in to the Red Cross to deliver hostage to hostage in Gaza, as long as Israel adheres to certain terms. Previously a video, which has released a depicted hostage, had caused strict criticism by Western powers.
Palestinian officials, as well as UN officials, say that about 600 trucks need to enter the Gaza every day to meet humanitarian needs – the same number of trucks that Israel allowed to enter Gaza before the war.
New fire against France, Britain, Canada
In the field, the Israeli army continues its bombings and operations. According to civil protection, at least 19 Palestinians were killed yesterday, nine of whom had gone to find food in the central part of the Gaza Strip.
Before leaving for New York, Israeli Foreign Minister Saar was once again against countries – such as France, Britain and Canada – who have announced their intention to recognize Palestinian state: they are “huge gift”.
“I had already warned” that this “would kill the chances of closing an agreement on hostages and a ceasefire” and “exactly that happened,” he continued, referring to the failure of indirect negotiations in July.
At the raid of Hamas’ military arm in the southern part of Israeli territory on October 7, 2023, 1,219 people were killed on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to the counting of the French Agency based on official Israeli data.
In Israeli military operations of large -scale retaliation, 60,933 people have lost their lives in the Gaza Strip, mostly civilians, according to data from the Hamas Government Ministry of Health, which are considered credible by the UN.
