Netanyahu says that Israel intends to completely control Gaza

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he intends to take full control of Gaza, which raises the possibility of extending an attack for several months and an open Israeli occupation of the besieged Palestinian pocket.

The proposal, which was discussed by the Security Council on Thursday evening, and has been very briefed on the Israeli media, is a possible maneuver to pressure Hamas at the same time to reach its demands to swap running while the ministers were right in the Israeli coalition.

He was asked in an interview with Fox News before meeting whether Israel wants to control both Gaza, Netanyahu answered: “We intend.”

If it is approved, the plan paves the way for Israel to take over the Palestinian enclave for the second time since the 1967 war, leaving the nation in effective control over all areas between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean.

In a Fox News interview, Netanyahu insisted that Israel does not want to keep Gaza permanently. The Prime Minister said: “We do not want to keep it.” “We want to get a security environment, and we do not want to judge it.”

But he did not say how long Israel will occupy Gaza, nor who will hand over the land, referring to a mysterious “Arab” force.

Netanyahu has already excluded allowing the Palestinian Authority, which limited independence in the West Bank, from the pocket management.

Israeli media reports described an expanded military attack that involves in charge of the densely populated parts Gaza It is not already under Israeli control, most of them around the ruins of Gaza City, and forcing Palestinian civilians over the cities of Khayyam already crowded along the southern coast.

Reports said that the seizure of the region requires several other months of fighting and large contacts of reserves, and will lead to a large international condemnation.

This will also expose the lives of Palestinian civilians who were forced to leave about 90 percent of Gaza, and they are in the grip of a quick famine.

Fifty hostages families who are still kept by Hamas – including 20 still believed to be alive – are very opposed, convinced that the expanded military attack will be at risk.

Two Israeli officials said that the proposal was one of the many Israeli army, which he submitted to Netanyahu, which is divided into options.

“We are not dealing with the theory – we are dealing with life and death issues,” said the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Army, Eyal Zamir, on Thursday, in reference to reports of the dispute between the army and Tetriaho.

The proposal holds a heavy historical weight and a human burden – belonging to the Israeli army as an official from Gaza after completely 20 years after its withdrawal from the region, and therefore, legally responsible for more than 2 million Palestinian civilians in the grip of humanitarian disasters.

As a common force, Israel will have more legal responsibilities for the needs of Palestinian civilians. It will be required, for example, to provide humanitarian assistance directly, instead of facilitating its passage to a besieged war zone.

But it will also provide Israel with the legal mechanism for confiscating the Palestinian territories and using it for the Jewish settlement, as it did between 1967, when it extracted the region from Egyptian control and 2005, when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the dismantling of 21 Israeli settlements and the forced evacuation of 8,000 Jews.

Gaza’s resettlement is a basic demand for right -wing ministers who support the Netanyahu government. US President Donald Trump told reporters earlier this week that any decision to re -occupy Gaza “was largely up to Israel.”

Mike Hakapi, the American ambassador to Israel, told Fox News that an institution supported and approved by the United States will expand its food transportation operations to Gaza, despite the extensive international condemnation of the military project.

Local health officials say more than 1,000 Palestinians were killed by live fire near the four distribution sites of the Foundation.

the War 22 months A cross -border raid was operated on October 7, 2023 by Hamas, which saw 250 people hostage and 1,200 dead in Israel, according to local officials.

The Israeli military attack was killed at least 60,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, according to local health officials, and destroyed the civil infrastructure of the pocket.