Officials say Israel is planning to capture the entire Gaza Strip, as it summoned tens of thousands of reserve soldiers

The government of Israel approved its plans on Monday to its forces to seize the entire Gaza Strip and stay in the region for an unlimited period of time, two Israeli officials told Associated Press. The plans appear to be ready to expand Israel’s operations significantly in War -torn Palestinian landsAnd they are likely to bring fierce international opposition.

The Israeli cabinet ministers agreed to the plan in a early morning vote, after the Israeli army chief said that the army was calling tens of thousands of reserve soldiers on charges of expanding assault on the tape.

The news came hours after Sunday Houthi missile strike was targeted For the first time since the war began, it stopped for a short period of flights and gently hitting four people. Israeli officials pledged quickly to respond.

The expansion plan in Israel, which officials told that AP aims to help achieve the goals of the war in the country’s defeat and liberate the hostages who are still detained in Gaza, will push hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to southern Gaza The terrible humanitarian crisis In the pocket.

in Video message It was published on Monday on social media, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not confirm the intention of the Israeli army to control the entire strip, but he said that the operation will be “intense”.

The European Union was among the first international entities to be concerned about the possibility of expanding Israeli military operations in Gaza, where the spokesman Anwar Anouni said that an escalation “would lead to more losses and suffering for the Palestinian population,” and urges the Israeli forces “to exercise the maximum,” according to the French News Agency.

Since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas It collapsed in mid -March With a renewed Israeli attack, the Israeli Defense Forces fierce strikes on the lands that killed hundreds. The Israeli Defense Army has acquired areas of lands and now controls nearly half of Gaza. Before the truce ended, Israel stopped all humanitarian aid to Gaza, including food, fuel and water, which leads to it The worst humanitarian crisis In nearly 19 months of war.

The prohibition on aid pushed hunger on a large scale and a looting deficiency, according to the aid agencies working in the pocket.

Netanyahu says that the residents of Gaza “will be transferred”

Israeli officials said that the plan included “picking up the tape and holding land.”

Through the plan, officials said that Israel also wanted to prevent Hamas from distributing humanitarian aid in the pocket that has been controlled for nearly two decades, and that Israel says strengthening its rule over Gaza. Israeli officials accused Hamas of preserving aid materials for itself, to clarify its capabilities. The officials said the plan also includes more powerful strikes against Hamas’s goals.

They added that Israel was in contact with several countries President Trump’s plan for the United States “control” on Gaza And its population moved about 2 million Palestinians. Israeli officials said that it would require “voluntary migration”, but the proposal that many civilians can come out of the region raised a condemnation from Israeli allies in Europe, and from its Arab neighbors, whom Mr. Trump said would be taken in the transferred masses.

In his video message on Monday, Netanyahu said, “The residents of Gaza will be transferred, to protect its own,” without providing details.

On Monday, he was asked about Israeli plans, US National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes said that President Trump has been “committed to securing the immediate release of the hostages and ending Hamas’s rule in Gaza,” the White House’s position repeated that “Hamas holds the responsibility of this conflict and the articles of renal appeal.”

An Israeli official told AP that the plan will be implemented. Both officials spoke on the condition that his identity was not disclosed because they were discussing secret military plans.

Israel has tried for weeks to increase the pressure on Hamas to show more flexibility in the ceasefire negotiations. But international brokers who are trying to bring aspects towards a new deal, struggled to do so. It does not seem that the measures of Israel – most notably the ongoing strikes and the full siege of the aid and other materials that enter Gaza – have transferred Hamas away from the negotiating sites. The group, which, by Israel, the United States and the European Union long demanded that Israel agree to a full withdrawal from Gaza as part of any permanent ceasefire.

The previous ceasefire was supposed to lead the two sides to negotiate the end of the war, but this goal was a repeated point in the talks between Israel and Hamas. Israel says it will not agree to end the war until Hamas is defeated.

Israel angered the expansion of military operations of the remaining Israeli hostages. The hostage family forum, which supports families, said on Monday that the plan endangered every hostage and urged decision -makers in Israel to secure a deal that gives the hostages, as up to 24 Israeli officials believe that they are still alive.

At the meeting of the Israeli Commissioners ’Committee on Monday, Eneaf Zanguker, whose son Matan was among the hostages still in Gaza, called on the soldiers to“ not report the pre -trial duty for moral and moral reasons. ”

Israeli officials have not revealed details of how the plan is seeking to prevent Hamas from participating in the distribution of aid. One of them said that the ministers had agreed to the “option to distribute aid”, without clarification.

Private security to control Gaza’s assistance?

According to an internal memorandum that is distributed between the relief groups and its seen AP, Israel told the United Nations that it would use private security companies to control the distribution of aid inside Gaza. The United Nations said, in a statement on Sunday, that it will not participate in the plan as it was presented, saying it violates its basic principles.

The memo, which was sent to the organizations on Sunday, detailed notes from a meeting between the Israeli Defense Authority responsible for the coordination of aid in Gaza, Kojat and the United Nations

Under the conceptual plan for Cogat, all aid will enter Gaza through the southern Kere Shalom crossing, including about 60 trucks per day, although the contents of the caravans were not clear, and there was no need for the number of people who will get aid to the upcoming aid.

The memo said that aid will be distributed in the logistical centers run by private security companies, and face recognition will be used to identify Palestinians in alert centers and short text messages to notify people in the region that they can come to collect aid.

Relief workers say that a central aid plan, instead of connecting it to the Palestinians, where they will replace more people by force. The fighting has already resulted in the displacement of more than 90 % of the population of Gaza, often several times, and turned a lot of Gaza into an invalid flexible.

The United Nations said the plan will leave large parts of the population, including the most vulnerable, without supplies. She said the plan “appears to be designed to enhance control of elements that maintain life as a pressure tactic-as part of a military strategy.”

In a statement on Monday, Hamas said that it refused to firm the Israeli plan to control the distribution of aid, describing it as a plan to “turn assistance into a tool for political extortion or subject it to the circumstances of Israel”, which said “a violation of international law and the extension of the award’s policy.”

The memorandum says that the United States government has expressed its clear support for the Israeli plan, but it is not clear who will provide funding for private military companies or aid. Kojat and the American embassy in Jerusalem did not respond immediately on a request for comment.

Israeli officials have repeatedly denied a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and said that there was sufficient food in the region, and he blamed Hamas for their failure to distribute it to civilians.

Earlier this week, the Associated Press obtained dozens of documents on relief groups’ concerns that aid distribution centers may end permanently to remove the Palestinians permanently and force them to live in “realistic detention conditions”.

The seizure of Gaza and the possibility of occupying it again for an unspecified period will not only lead to more hopes of Dash in the Palestinian state, but will ensure Israel within a group of very modified population with it and asking questions about how Israel plans to rule the region, especially while it is considering how President Trump’s vision of Jazza implement.

Israel launched its war in Gaza in response to a terrorist attack led by Hamas on October 7, 2023 in southern Israel, where 1,200 people and 251 hostages were killed in Gaza. The Israeli attack killed more than 52,000 people in Gaza, and many of them are women and children, according to Palestinian health officials in Hamas’s lands, who do not distinguish between fighters and civilians.

Israel occupied Gaza during a war in 1967, but withdrew the forces and settlers from the pocket in 2005. After two years, Hamas has taken control of the region since then.