“A decision that dismayed and alarms, but, unfortunately, it is not surprising.” It is the comment on the front page of theRoman Observerofficial newspaper of the Holy See, on the announcement that the Israeli government wants to totally occupy the whole Gaz stripA Included the areas in which the hostages are held still in the hands of Hamas as they reported, on Monday evening, high officials of the Prime Minister’s Office Benjamin Netanyahu to Channel 12: «Hamas will not release other hostages without a total yield, and we will not give up. If we do not act now, the hostages will starve and Gaza will remain under Hamas control ». And to the Chief of Staff of the Idf, the general Eyal Zamirwho showed resistance for the complete employment plan, Netanyahu sent a clear message: “If you don’t agree, he resigns”.
That the Israeli government “had the intention of bringing the territory of the Strip back to a status similar to that of the West Bank, as it had been between 1967 and 2005, had been in the air for months», He writes theRoman Observer In an article in which he summarizes the debate of these hours and the controversies around the Israeli president, “in early May, after the breakdown of the truce with Hamas in March, the project of a massive invasion Netanyahu had declared it with a video on X, while the IDF heavily intensified military operations in the area. Moreover, the pressures and proclamations in this sense, in particular by the ministers of the extremist religious ultra-repellent, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, have been constant in all these 23 months of war».
The “Pope’s newspaper” also underlines the difficult situation of the hostages in the hands of Hamas: “The abyss of devastation in the Gaza strip is also reflected in the hematic and suffering bodies of the Israeli hostages still in the hands of Hamas”. In this regard, the observer speaks of “horror”. The reference is to the publication by Hamas of the videos of the two hostages twenties, Evyatar David and Rom Breslavski, Reduced skin and bones, inside underground tunnels.
Also the US president Donald Trump, According to what is read in the Israeli media, he would have given the ok to Netanyahu for the military operation of “Total occupation” in Gaza. According to Ynet, United States and Israel agree that the group does not want an agreement for the truce in exchange for the liberation of the hostages.
But within the high Israeli political and military leaders there is a lot of perplexity on the Netanyahu plan. According to reports Haaretz That cites a well -informed source, the Israeli Prime Minister should have brought together the security cabinet on Tuesday evening to discuss the expansion of the operations in the strip. The Guardn, however, wrote that the meeting is postponed due to the high voltage.
In addition to the Head of the IDF, among those who prefer to continue the efforts for a cessate-the-croissant agreement, which is now on stand-by, there would also be the foreign minister, Gideon Sa’ar, the National Security Councilor, Tzachi Hanegbi, the head of Mossad, David Barneathe Shin Bet negotiator (the internal secret service) and the person in charge of supervising the file on the hostages on behalf of the army, Nitzan Alon. Not only that, but most of the establishment has lined up against Netanyahu. Dozens of former leaders of Mossad, Shin Bet and Idf, many of whom have made the history of the country of the last decades, have asked for the end of the war in a video, while Over 600 retired Israeli security officials have signed a petition: “On behalf of the CSI, the largest Israeli group of former army, Mossad, Shin Bet, police and equivalent diplomatic bodies, we urge you to end the war in Gaza”, they write, “You did it in Lebanon. It is time to do it too in Gaza ». Among the signatories, in fact, there are three former leaders of Mossad, the secret service for foreign countries (Tamir Pardo, Efraim Halevy, Danny Yatom), Four former managers of the Shin Bet (Nadav Argenaman, Yoram Cohen, Ami Ayalon, Yaakov Peri, Carmi Gilon) and three former heads of staff (Former premier Ehud Barak, Moshe Bogie Ya’alon, Dan Halutz). They recognize that “the IDF has long achieved the two objectives that could be obtained by force: dismantling the Hamas army and government”. “The third, and most important, remains, which can only be reached through an agreement: bring home all the hostages”. It would not be a surrender to the fundamentalists: “Training the remaining high Hamas officials can be done later”, but “hostages cannot wait”, The signatories insist.
Meanwhile, in the strip, we continue to die under the bombs and hunger. According to the Ministry of Health of Gaza, In the last 24 hours at least 87 Palestinians, including 52 in search of aid, have been killed and 644 injured in the attacks of the Israeli army in the strip. The count includes eight people, a child and seven adults, who have starred in the last 24 hours, bringing the budget of the victims related to hunger a 188, including 94 children.
