Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel plans to take over Gaza

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Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel intends to seize both Gaza, as the country escalated its attack in its war pocket, as the tape bombed the air strikes and issued an evacuation order for one of its largest cities.

On Monday, the Israeli army informed all residents of the southern city of Khan Yunis-the second largest land in the region before the war-to leave, demanding the move to the west to the so-called “humanitarian area” before what it called an “unprecedented attack” on the city.

The aim of the expanded Israeli campaign was to “take over all the lands of Gaza” in an attempt to completely defeat agitationNetanyahu said in a video on Monday.

Israel – which officially launched the new attack during the weekend – has mobilized two additional pedestrians and shields to the region, where the total number reached five.

Local reports indicated that the Israeli Special Forces team, wearing civilian refugees, had infiltrated early on Monday Khan Yunis and targeted the main militant. The Israel Defense Forces said they were aware of the reports, but they added that there was “no change in the circumstantial evaluation.”

The expanded military operations came as Israel began to return the student with limited quantities of aid in Gaza, which the Israeli Prime Minister said was necessary to preserve international legitimacy.

Aden Bar Tall, Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Israel, said that Israel has facilitated the entry of trucks with children’s food on Gaza on Monday, and that “dozens” of aid truck will go in “in the coming days.”

Netanyahu On Sunday night, he agreed to a plan to start the siege for two months, with a preliminary flow of aid to follow up on the UN -led model, which was in its place since the beginning War In October 2023.

He admitted for the first time that Ghazan was on the brink of hunger.

Netanyahu said on Monday: “We quickly approach the red line (hunger), to a position in which we can lose control and then everything collapses,” adding that international pressure – including from the United States – forced the country to reduce the siege.

The Prime Minister said that he told him “Friends” of Israel all over the world and in the US Congress that “we will not accept pictures of comprehensive hunger … We will not be able to support you” in the war effort.

The Trump administration, which strongly supported the goals of the Israel War, warned in recent days of the dark humanitarian conditions inside Gaza, where US President Steve Witkev’s envoy on Sunday told the United States that the crisis will not let the crisis “occur in President Trump’s hour.”

The Prime Minister refused to hold a vote in the security cabinet regarding the decision to resume aid, for fear that the proposal was not implemented in a sign of the controversial local policy surrounding the provision of aid to Gaza.

Israeli officials have constantly claimed that humanitarian supplies are diluted by Hamas.

On Monday, he supported the prime minister but once again insisted on “the lack of assistance to Hamas, the period.”

Netanyahu said on Monday that a controversial plan for Trump-where an unknown Swiss group, the Gaza Humanitarian Corporation, is distributing aid under the supervision of Israeli military and private security contractors-“takes some time” to build.

“There was a little basic bridge,” he said, “so that there would be no hunger in Gaza.”

The expanded attack came when Egyptian and cataract brokers in Doha tried to mediate a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Netanyahu has already said that he “will only negotiate under the fire” with the armed group, in an attempt to secure the release of 58 hostages from Israel by Hamas during its attack on October 7, 2023, and it is believed that about 20 of them are alive.

But the Israeli leader was clear that he would not end the war until “complete victory” over Hamas, including disarming the group, and denying its leadership.

Participated in additional reports by James Stoster and Malika Kanani Taber