The Israeli security cabinet approved a proposal to take control of the city of Gaza in the Gaza Palestinian band. This was announced on Friday by the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to AP and CNN and BBC reports, TASR reports this.
“The security cabinet approved the Prime Minister’s proposal to defeat Hamas,” said the office of Israeli Prime Minister after a few -hour session of the security cabinet. In the statement, she presented details of the approved plans to occupy the city of Gaza and “five principles of the end of the war”.
“The army will prepare to take control of the city of Gaza and at the same time provide humanitarian aid to the civilian population outside the combat zones,” the statement said.
Details did not give
According to the BBC, the aforementioned principles of the end of the war are the disarmament of the Palestinian militant Hamas movement, the return of all hostages – living and dead, demilitarization of the Gaza band, Israeli security control over the Gaza band, the existence of an alternative civilian government that is neither Hamas nor the Palestinian self -government.
“The absolute majority of cabinet ministers believed that the alternative plan submitted to the cabinet will not reached the defeat of Hamas or the return of the kidnapped,” said Netanyahua office. However, the statement does not state the details of this alternative plan. According to the news portal The Times of Israel (Toi), he seems to refer to a proposal presented by the Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli Armed Forces Ejal Zamir. He said on Thursday that the army disagrees with the alleged efforts of Prime Minister Netanyahu to enforce the full anexation of the Gaza Israel band.
The army first did not enter the city
Toi notes that the Israeli army has avoided joining a large part of Gaza since the beginning of the war in the Palestinian enclave. This operation will probably require a mass evacuation of an area where approximately 800,000 Gaza Strinee inhabitants currently live. According to Toi, the city of Gaza is part of 25 percent of the Palestinian territory that has not yet been planted by Israeli forces.
Critics, according to the NBC News, claim that the occupation of the city of Gaza will prolong the captivity of hostages, even more deepen the involvement of the Israeli army in the conflict and cause a higher number of Palestinian civilian victims.
Views changed
Even before Thursday’s meeting Netanyahu in an interview with Fox News, he said that Israel intended to take military control over the entire Gaza band, but he does not want to rule or retain it. For the Indian news channel CNN-News18, he previously said that Israel does not plan to annex to the Gaza Strip and the control of it after the defeat of the militant Hamas movement will hand over the transitional government.
The war in the Gaza Strip unleashed the attack of Palestinian militants in Israel from October 2023, who killed 1219 people, mostly civilians and kidnapped approximately 250 people as hostages. In the subsequent combat operations of the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip, more than 61,000 people lost their lives, mostly civilians – the Ministry of Health data in the territory managed by Hamas, which the UN considers reliable.
