Executive did not clarify what you want to do with the rest of the enclave, but Netanyahu already had Declared the intention to extend the operation to the entire range before starting a decisive meeting.
The Israeli Government Security Office approved at dawn a military plan proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to occupy the city of Gaza in northern Enclave.
After about ten hours of meeting, the Israeli government issued a statement where Netanyahu plan to “defeat Hamas”, which includes occupying the city of Gaza, exposed, which includes the city of Gaza, without clarifying what will happen with the rest of the enclave, Although the Prime Minister declared the intention to extend the operation to the entire track before starting the debate session with the Office.
“Israel’s defense forces (FDI) will prepare to assume control of the city of Gaza, while ensuring the provision of humanitarian aid to the civilian population outside the combat zones,” the statement specifies.
The government also ensures that the cabinet adopted “by majority of votes” five principles to finish the war: Hamaso return of all hostages with or without lifea Demilitarization of the Gaza StripIsraelite control of security in the Gaza range and the establishment of a “Alternative Civil Administration“For the enclave, that is neither Hamas nor the Palestinian authority, which currently rules parts of the busy West Bank.
Speaking to the American television station Before the cabinet meeting, Netanyahu stated that his goal was to occupy the entire range of Gaza, but that does not intend to stay with her or govern herbut maintain a “security perimeter” and give her “Arab forces that govern her” without threatening Israel and without Hamas.
According to the statement, at the meeting was discarded an “alternative plan”for considering that “he would not be able to defeat Hamas or the return of hostages.”
Plan will have come of the Head of the Israeli Army Staff
The Israelite media refer That this plan would have come from the Israeli Army Chief Staff, Eyal Zamir, who had already faced Netanyahu by expressing his rejection of the occupation of the entire track.
In recent days, the country’s main media have released Netanyahu’s intention to expand the offensive to the areas where hostages are believed to meet, in a plan of various phases.
In the first of these, the Israeli troops would occupy the city of Gaza and would force the move of the million Palestinians that still remain in the city to the area of Mawasi (south), already overcrowded.
Subsequently, Israel would try to assume the Control of refugee camps in the center of the trackwhere troop raids have been limited. At all these points, Israel estimates that there are alive hostages.
Official information released by the Israelite government, however, does not confirm nEnhance action beyond taking the city of Gaza.
Palestinian militias still maintain 50 Israeli hostagesof which only about 20 will remain alive, according to estimates from Israel.
The UN warned on Wednesday that if Israel puts this plan into practice, there will be “catastrophic consequences” to the population of Gaza.
