While “complete victory” against Hamas, Israel’s journey, Netanyahu depends on tanks and conversations

Although Gaza City is emptied – with the Palestinians fleeing before a planned Israeli attack that is already advancing – one of the angle is still in the heart of this great urban center in northern Gaza, crowded on the afternoon of the day.

Young and adults, standing for signs that read “No to displacement” and “save us”. It is an appeal to help and protest, and their hope and anger are unusually aimed at both Israel and Hamas.

“We cannot take it anymore. Gaza City will be destroyed, and where we are supposed to go?” Said Muhammad Hallas, 45.

Hamas’s criticism was rarely during the referee of the armed group for 20 years on the Gaza Strip. But the pressure is increasing until more concessions are offered to a ceasefire after nearly two years of war.

“The needs of people are more important than the movement’s needs and political desires.”

On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed his country’s plans to “take” parts of Gaza City, whose forces have not kept since the beginning of the war. He said that the goal is to “defeat Hamas”, by going after the gunmen were dug that they were dug between the city’s ruins and a wide system of tunnels under it.

Israel was shooting these neighborhoods with drones and artillery since preliminary plans to occupy the area were revealed two weeks ago.

The army summoned 60,000 reserve soldiers for the operation, and has already told 20,000 people in active service that they will have to stay longer.

But even when it came to sending tanks, Netanyahu also said that Israel will start talks – “immediate negotiations” to a ceasefire – based on a new position and applause taken by Hamas earlier this week.

The two sides have been far from each other since the outbreak of talks in late July.

Now, Hamas has agreed to accept the temporary ceasefire for a period of 60 days, as 10 of the twenty hostages will be launched in exchange for the Palestinians in Israeli prisons. The Israeli forces were retreating and the talks will start at the end of the war.

Israel has taken a difficult line on all the twenty hostages who are released simultaneously, with its forces remaining in Gaza, while Hamas is removed and disarmed. Now Netanyahu says that the ceasefire is worth discussing, although it is mysterious on the details.

The parallel methods of occupation and negotiation are fraught with the Palestinians in Gaza and Hamas fighters, for the Israeli hostages, and in fact, in favor of Netanyahu himself.

In fact, Janis Stein, an east expert in the Middle East, said he is trying to keep his options open when they actually shrink. After more than 22 months, the war of war or attempts to make peace “complete victory” did not bring Israel that then.

“This is the narrowing of the options after almost everything has been tried, and it is where we are now.”

Gaza hopes about two million Palestinians in an immediate ceasefire that ends the war. Most of them have already been forced to move several times as Israel sought its military imprint. More than 85 percent of the region is either an active war zone or an area announced by the Israeli army.

At least a million people gathered in Gaza City were informed of the road again. They have few options but head south and west along the seashore, to the already crowded areas and their short food and medical facilities.

United Nations Secretary -General Antonio Guterres warned that if it is proceeded, the military operation to take Gaza City will inevitably lead to “death and tremendous destruction.”

It can worse the Gaza assistance crisis. Non -supported hunger screen Declare Father on Friday, saying that it will spread from this field, with more than half a million Ghazan, “facing the catastrophic conditions characterized by hunger, want and death.” It repeats the various warnings of the United Nations groups and NGOs that appeared for weeks.

Israel He says “He categorically rejects … demanding famine.” The amount of aid is allowed to the region for several months.

The continuation of the war is popular with the advanced right -wing Israeli politicians and other ministers in the Supreme Security Council of Ministers in Netanyahu, such as Eli Cohen, who told Channel 14 in Tel Aviv that “Gaza City itself should be like Rafah completely, which turned us into the city of Atl.”

The Israeli military chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, was initially lukewarm on the plan, but this week supported the summons of the reserve soldiers He said his forces.

Others argue that Israel is rushing without looking at the dangers, especially for some of the hostages who are believed to be in Gaza City. On Sunday, hundreds of thousands of Israelis demonstrated in the streets of Tel Aviv and other cities.

“I hope this will move something and bring a kind of agreement,” said the Israeli demonstrator. “I just want the war to end, I don’t want more deaths and more suffering.”

Military expert Murad Aslan, from Hassan Calionko University, said that Israel may be very convinced of its “military superiority” to the point that it uses this “last resort” – an expanded profession – “as the first.”

But Hamas has not yet defeated 22 months of fighting.

“I do not think that a military campaign with regular units will be fruitful,” he said. “They still have the advantage of hiding themselves.”

Since the beginning of the Israeli attack, the army says 454 of its soldiers have died in Gaza. More than 61,000 Ghazan was killed at the same time, including fighters and civilians, according to figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health.

The war was operated on October 7, 2023, when Hamas gunmen attacked Israeli societies near the border, leaving about 1,200 dead and another one hostile in Gaza.

“The public is unusually skeptical of what the government is now thinking,” said Alon Benkas, former Israeli political and diplomatic writer. It is called the “fatigue factor” for a long, expensive war that kept thousands on the front lines, with many killer reserve soldiers for more than a year.

Israel’s actions were criticized CanadaThe United Kingdom, France and others. Australia Israel was in a war. Germany imposed Partial weapons ban. There The arrest warrant In favor of Netanyahu from the International Criminal Court, he was accused of launching attacks against civilians and “using hunger as a way of war.”

Despite all of this, the dangers of hostage murder, Netanyahu has kept the war continuous.

American military support, along with the praise of US President Donald Trump, who described the Prime Minister as a “hero of war” this week.

But the most important of all, as Pinkas says, Netanyahu has been pushed to continue fighting in Gaza by struggle for “political survival”. He cannot lose support from members of the right -wing coalition who threatened to abandon it if he abandoned the war.

Pinkas said he could not stop using the war as a way to mobilize the country around it.

Pinkas said: “He knows,” if there is no war, then the day of reckoning comes in terms of public demands to be responsible for what happened “on October 7 and the accusation, he put barriers on the roads to stop the shooting and the hostage since then.

So it maintains all options for playing, as the fighting demands grow from all sides.