The Israeli authorities are looking for a way to proceed in the Gaza Strip in the absence of progress in the negotiations to achieve a truce with Hamas. Everything seems to indicate that the favorite option of several members of the government, including Prime Minister Benjamín Netanyahu, implies an extension of the occupation on the enclave
The nervousness has increased in Israel on Tuesday morning, when different media have advanced that Netanyahu was about to summon the security council to seek the imminent approval of these plans for the next few hours. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz He has indicated later that the meeting would not finally happen this Tuesday and that was postponed without a known date. Instead, according to the same information ,.
The call and subsequent cancellation of that meeting, initially scheduled for this Tuesday, arrive in information that suggests the division of the Israeli authorities in relation to Gaza. that maintains and in power to Netanyahu push the prime minister towards the total occupation of the enclave. On Monday night, a filtration by a high Israeli position pointed out that the prime minister opted to carry out that climb. But the position of the Army Chief, Eyal Zamir, who, according to this information, prefers to continue exploring the possibility of achieving a truce to avoid engaging his troops in an endless wear conflict, could hinder that expansion.
Israeli leaders are preparing to decide what course Israel takes in Gaza while internal tension grows in that country. On Monday, hundreds of former members of Israeli security agencies and assured that this operation lacks clear purposes. In addition, the Netanyahu government voted in block, Gali Baharav-Miara. Their dismissal will not be effective until the Superior Court pronounced on the legality of that movement, but the attempts of the Executive to detach from the prosecutor that supervises are perceived as one more attempt by the Government to undermine the Judiciary.
Hunger persists
. At least eight people have died from that cause in the last 24 hours, causing them to be 188 – 94, children – those who have died hungry since the beginning of the war, according to the Ministry of Health of Gaza, in the hands of Hamas, on Tuesday. Most of those deaths have occurred since the early July, indicating a worsening of the situation. The same Gazati ministry indicates that Israeli hostilities.
Israel raises the increase in military force in the strip before to reach a high fire that releases the hostages. A high Israeli position in anonymity said Sunday in Reuters that within the Israeli authorities the perception that the Palestinian militia Hamás is not interested in a truce grew, making Israel opting for an escalation.
In the absence of addressing this matter with the security cabinet during the next few days, everything seems to indicate that Netyahu is inclined to the expansion of the offensive in the enclave. Days ago, Israeli press assured that the prime minister was undecided in relation to that issue. But on Monday night, the newspaper Be fated He cited a high position close to Netanyahu: “Luck is thrown, we are going for the total occupation of the Gaza Strip.” In what in Israel has been perceived as a challenge, that same anonymous source added: “There will be operations even in the areas where the captives are being retained. If the army chief does not agree with it, he must resign.”
The filtration of that high Israeli position arrived in parallel to the information published by the Radio of the Army of Israel, which on Monday echoed the growing frustration of Zamir, which describes as a lack of strategy and political leadership. The expansion of the offensive divides the Israeli authorities, and Zamir is among those who prefer to continue looking for a truce that prevents their troops from being engaged in an endless wear war with Hamas, at a time when both reserved and regular soldiers show indications of exhaustion.
Israeli troops. Now, it is believed that an operation that expands the occupation on the enclave could mobilize the army in territories where Hamas hides the captives. One of those places is Gaza City.
Last week, the most radical members of the government coalition called for the destruction of that city and underground tunnels as part of a strategy to take control of the entire enclave. According to Israeli press, Netanyahu did not reject the idea, but the head of the army did, who warned that carrying out these operations would put the captives at risk and would then entail accepting their condition as a second category objective for Israel.
Meanwhile, the executive’s maneuvers to take the State Attorney General of the Israeli political system. On Monday, the government voted in favor of its dismissal, which must be reviewed by the Superior Court. The attempts to throw her out of office after a series of clashes between the prosecutor and the Netanyahu government. Baharav-Miara opposes the military exemption of tens of thousands of ultra-orthodox men, something that the ultra-orthodox members of the Executive demand as a condition for the stability of the coalition. In addition, Baharav-Miara Supervisa, and there are fears that the Government can put in its place a new prosecutor closest to Netanyahu.
