Objective would be to deliver the city’s control to a civil government other than “Hamas or Palestinian Authority”
Israel’s security office approved a plan to gradually assume military control of the entire Gaza Strip, including the city of Gaza. The decision was made on the morning of this Friday (8.ago.2025), on local time, after 10 hours of deliberations, and contradicts the recommendations of the Israeli Armed Forces. The stated goal is to reach a decisive victory over Hamas, a group that led the.
The proposal was presented by the Prime Minister (Likud, right) at a time when negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage release are paralyzed.
The (Israel Defense Forces) reported that they already control about 75% of the territory of Gaza, leaving mainly the coastal strip that extends from the city of Gaza in the north to Khan Youis in the south.
On social network X, the official profile of Netanyahu’s office. According to the message “As FDI [Forças de Defesa de Israel] will prepare to take control of the city of Gaza while distributing humanitarian aid to the civilian population that is outside the combat zones”.
In the text, the office reports that 5 principles were approved to end the war:
- Hamas disarmament;
- The return of all hostages – the living and the dead;
- The demilitarization of the gaza range;
- The safety control of the Gaza range by Israel;
- The establishment of an alternative civil government other than Hamas or Palestinian Authority.
The message also informs that a “decisiveOf the Security Office expressed that the alternative plan for Gaza “would not reach the defeat of Hamas or the return of hostages”.
Netanyahu Complete Gaza in an interview with Fox News before the cabinet meeting. When questioned directly on Gaza’s full taking, the Prime Minister replied: “We intend”.
The plan will directly affect approximately 50 hostages still kept in captivity by Hamas, of which 20 are believed to be alive. During the 2023 attack, about 250 people were kidnapped.
According to , The beginning of the implementation of the military operation will take days, at least, so that the Army summons reserve forces, performs troop implantations and allows the evacuation of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the new combat areas. Israeli military authorities estimate that the conquest of the remaining parts of Gaza may take months.
Before the vote, an Israeli authority told the that the gradual plan will require a total of 5 months.
Approximately 2 million Palestinians, many of them displaced, are on tents, makeshift shelters and apartments in the areas not yet controlled by Israel.
In the interview with Fox NewsNetanyahu argued that the measure “would ensure our safetyAnd would allow the transfer of civil administration to another part.We want to free and free the people of Gaza from the terrible terror of Hamas”Said Israeli Prime Minister, adding:“We don’t want to keep it. We do not want to govern it. We do not want to be there as a ruling body. We want to deliver it to Arab forces”.
Hamas responded in a statement on Thursday (6.ago) that the comments of Netanyahu “represent a clear reversal of the negotiations course and clearly reveal the real reasons for the removal of the final round”.
Parliamentary opposition leader Yair Lapid criticized the decision: “Gaining Gaza is a bad operational idea, a bad moral idea and a bad economic idea”.
