Take full control of the strip to definitively annihilate Hamas. Then, in a subsequent phase, to deliver his administration to Arabic forces friendly who do not threaten the survival of Israel. This is what the Israeli security cabinet decreed, giving the green light to the plan of Prime Minister Netanyahu for military occupation and thus ignoring the warnings of the top of the Israeli defense forces (IDF).
The approved declaration, according to the media, It concerns the area of Gaza City, in the northern part of the Palestinian territory. The approved plan includes five points: “The disarmament of Hamas, the return of all the hostages, the living and deceased, the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli safety control in the Gaza Strip, the establishment of an alternative civil administration that is neither Hamas nor the Palestinian authority”.
According to the Netanyahu office, the Israeli forces (IDF) “will prepare to take control of Gaza City by distributing humanitarian aid to the civilian population outside the combat areas”. In a television interview, Netanyahu said Israel has no intention of govern Gaza, who wants to obtain a “security perimeter” and leave the responsibility of the control and government of the Striscia to a third party so far not better specified.
Netanyahu’s plan arouses strong resistance, Starting from that of the leader of the opposition Yair Lapid who declared that this decision was “a disaster that will bring many other disasters”. In a post on X Lapid he commented very hard that the plan will take months, he will lead to the death of the hostages, to the killing of many soldiers, will cost dozens of billions to Israeli citizens who pay taxes and will lead to a political collapse “.” This is Lapid: “This is exactly what Hamas wanted, that Israel remains trapped on the field without a goal, without defining the picture of the next day, in the next day, A useless employment that nobody includes where he is bringing “.
The British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is firmly disapprovelessly to disapprovelessly,: “This action will do nothing to end this conflict or to help guarantee the release of the hostages. He will only bring bloodsiest of blood”. In Gaza City, about 800 thousand people currently live. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were gone in the first weeks of the war following the Israeli orders of forced evacuation. But many then returned to the city. A vast employment operation of Gaza City, in addition to taking time, phe will hear a mass evacuation of a population already dramatically exhausted by hunger and precariousness Which, according to the plan, will be transferred to fields for displaced people in the center of the strip by 7 October. A siege will be imposed around the Hamas militants who remain in Gaza City and at the same time a land offensive will be conducted.
The Israeli defense forces continue to contest the operation because it would put the life of the hostages still alive at risk and would unleash an even wider humanitarian disaster. The Israeli government claims to currently check 75% of the strip, while the IDF avoided entering the remaining 25% – which largely affects Gaza City and refugee camps in the central part of the Striscia – since it believes that most of the hostages are in that area. And Hamas threatened to kill them all if the Israeli forces approach the area.
The reaction to the plan by the Forum of the relatives of the hostages is very hard. In an X -widespread declaration we read: “The decision to aim for the occupation of the strip means abandoning the hostages, completely ignoring the repeated alarms of the military leaders and the clear desire of most of the public opinion in Israel”. The forum concludes: “The only way to bring the hostages home is an overall agreement. No more useless war. We will not stay to watch. We ask for a general agreement now”.
The Brussels reaction was not long in coming, through a X post on the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen: “The decision of the Israeli government to further extend its military operation to Gaza must be reconsidered. At the same time, it is necessary that all hostages, detained in inhuman conditions, be released. Furthermore, humanitarian aid must be able to access immediately and without obstacles to Gaza to provide what is urgently necessary on the field. A ceased one is necessary”.
Germany has announced the suspension of the supply of weapons to Israel. “The German government will not authorize any export of military equipment that could be used in the Gaza strip to new notice,” said Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
(Photo Ansa: displaced Palestinian waiting to receive food aid in Gaza City)
