Netanyahu’s battle cupboard set to approve army operations throughout whole enclave, based on Israeli media.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ready to announce plans to completely occupy the Gaza Strip, Israeli media have reported.
Netanyahu’s resolution will see the Israeli army broaden its operations throughout all the enclave, together with areas the place Hamas’s captives are being held, i24NEWS, The Jerusalem Put up, Channel 12 and Ynet reported on Monday.
“The choice has been made,” Amit Sega, chief political analyst with Channel 12, quoted an unnamed senior official in Netanyahu’s workplace as saying.
“Hamas received’t launch extra hostages with out complete give up, and we received’t give up. If we don’t act now, the hostages will starve to dying and Gaza will stay beneath Hamas’s management.”
The Palestinian Ministry of Overseas Affairs condemned the reported plans and referred to as on the worldwide group to “intervene urgently to forestall their implementation, whether or not they’re a type of stress, trial balloons to gauge worldwide reactions, or genuinely severe”.
Netanyahu’s workplace didn’t instantly reply to Al Jazeera’s request for remark.
The reviews come as Netanyahu is ready to convene his battle cupboard on Tuesday to debate the following steps for Israel’s army in Gaza as its battle within the besieged enclave nears the two-year mark.
Netanyahu is dealing with rising worldwide stress to permit extra humanitarian assist into Gaza and halt the battle amid mounting Palestinian deaths because of malnutrition and Israeli assaults.
A minimum of 74 Palestinians, together with 36 assist seekers, have been killed in Israeli assaults on Monday, based on medical sources in Gaza.
The Israeli chief can be dealing with mounting home stress to safe the discharge of Hamas’s remaining captives in Gaza, following the discharge of footage of detainees Rom Braslavski and Evyatar David showing emaciated.
Netanyahu on Monday doubled down on his battle targets, together with eliminating Hamas and securing the discharge of the remaining captives.
“We should proceed to face collectively and struggle collectively to realize all our battle goals: the defeat of the enemy, the discharge of our hostages, and the reassurance that Gaza will not pose a menace to Israel,” Netanyahu mentioned in the beginning of an everyday cupboard assembly on Monday.
Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan on Monday accused america and different Western international locations of turning a blind eye to Israeli atrocities, and mentioned that Netanyahu’s authorities bore “full accountability” for the lives of the captives “because of its stubbornness, conceitedness, and evasion of reaching a ceasefire settlement, and the escalation of the battle of extermination and hunger towards our folks”.
Greater than 60,930 Palestinians, together with a minimum of 18,430 kids, have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, based on Gaza well being authorities.
Forty-nine captives, together with 27 who’re believed to be lifeless, are nonetheless being held by Hamas, based on Israeli authorities.