BBC:
Netanyahu to propose full reoccupation of Gaza, Israeli media report
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Yolande Knell
BBC News, Jerusalem
Reuters
Netanyahu's plan reportedly faces opposition from military chiefs
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to propose fully reoccupying the Gaza Strip when he meets his security cabinet, Israeli media say.
"The die has been cast. We're going for the full conquest of the Gaza Strip – and defeating Hamas," local journalists quote a senior official saying.
Responding to reports that the army chief and other military leaders oppose the plan, the unnamed official said: "If that doesn't work for the chief of staff, he should resign."
The families of hostages fear such plans could endanger their loved ones, with 20 out of 50 believed to be alive in Gaza, while polls suggest three in four Israelis instead favour a ceasefire deal to return them.
Many of Israel's close allies would also condemn such a move as they push for an end to the war and action to alleviate a humanitarian crisis.
Within Israel, hundreds of retired Israeli security officials, including former heads of intelligence agencies, issued a joint letter to US President Donald Trump on Monday, calling for him to pressure Netanyahu to end the war.
One of the signatories, ex-domestic intelligence agency chief Ami Ayalon, told the BBC that further military action would be futile.
"From the military point of view, [Hamas] is totally destroyed. On the other hand, as an ideology it is getting more and more power among the Palestinian people, within the Arab street around us, and also in the world of Islam.
"So the only way to defeat Hamas's ideology is to present a better future."
The latest developments come after indirect talks with Hamas on a ceasefire and hostage deal broke down and Palestinian armed groups released three videos of two Israeli hostages looking weak and emaciated.
The footage of Rom Blaslavski and Evyatar David, both kidnapped from the Nova festival on 7 October 2023, has shocked and appalled Israelis. David is shown digging what he says is his own grave in an underground tunnel.
There has been some speculation that the latest media announcements are a pressure tactic to try to force Hamas into a new deal.
Israel's military says it already has operational control of 75% of Gaza. But under the proposed plan it would occupy the entire territory – moving into areas where more than two million Palestinians are now concentrated.
It is unclear what that would mean for civilians and for the operations of the UN and other aid groups. About 90% of Gaza's 2.1 million people have been displaced, some repeatedly, and are living in overcrowded and dire conditions. Humanitarian groups and UN officials say many are starving, accusing Israel of impeding the distribution of crucial aid.
The Israeli military has previously held back from some areas, including parts of central Gaza, because of an assumption that there are living hostages held there. Last year, six Israeli hostages were executed by their captors after ground forces moved in.
There has not been a formal response but officials from the Palestinian Authority, which governs parts of the occupied West Bank, denounced the Israeli proposal, calling on the international community to intervene to prevent any new military occupation.
Palestinians point out that far-right Israeli ministers have been openly advocating for the full occupation and annexation of Gaza and ultimately want to build new Jewish settlements there.
In 2005, Israel dismantled settlements in the Gaza Strip and withdrew its forces from there.
But alongside Egypt, it maintained a tight control of access to the territory.
The new occupation idea comes amid growing international moves to revive the two-state solution – the long-time international formula to resolve the decades-old Israel-Palestinian conflict. It envisages an independent Palestinian state being created alongside Israel in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Netanyahu's plan reportedly faces opposition from military chiefs
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to propose fully reoccupying the Gaza Strip when he meets his security cabinet, Israeli media say.
"The die has been cast. We're going for the full conquest of the Gaza Strip – and defeating Hamas," local journalists quote a senior official saying.
Responding to reports that the army chief and other military leaders oppose the plan, the unnamed official said: "If that doesn't work for the chief of staff, he should resign."
The families of hostages fear such plans could endanger their loved ones, with 20 out of 50 believed to be alive in Gaza, while polls suggest three in four Israelis instead favour a ceasefire deal to return them.
Many of Israel's close allies would also condemn such a move as they push for an end to the war and action to alleviate a humanitarian crisis.
Within Israel, hundreds of retired Israeli security officials, including former heads of intelligence agencies, issued a joint letter to US President Donald Trump on Monday, calling for him to pressure Netanyahu to end the war.
One of the signatories, ex-domestic intelligence agency chief Ami Ayalon, told the BBC that further military action would be futile.
"From the military point of view, [Hamas] is totally destroyed. On the other hand, as an ideology it is getting more and more power among the Palestinian people, within the Arab street around us, and also in the world of Islam.
"So the only way to defeat Hamas's ideology is to present a better future."
The latest developments come after indirect talks with Hamas on a ceasefire and hostage deal broke down and Palestinian armed groups released three videos of two Israeli hostages looking weak and emaciated.
The footage of Rom Blaslavski and Evyatar David, both kidnapped from the Nova festival on 7 October 2023, has shocked and appalled Israelis. David is shown digging what he says is his own grave in an underground tunnel.
There has been some speculation that the latest media announcements are a pressure tactic to try to force Hamas into a new deal.
Israel's military says it already has operational control of 75% of Gaza. But under the proposed plan it would occupy the entire territory – moving into areas where more than two million Palestinians are now concentrated.
It is unclear what that would mean for civilians and for the operations of the UN and other aid groups. About 90% of Gaza's 2.1 million people have been displaced, some repeatedly, and are living in overcrowded and dire conditions. Humanitarian groups and UN officials say many are starving, accusing Israel of impeding the distribution of crucial aid.
The Israeli military has previously held back from some areas, including parts of central Gaza, because of an assumption that there are living hostages held there. Last year, six Israeli hostages were executed by their captors after ground forces moved in.
There has not been a formal response but officials from the Palestinian Authority, which governs parts of the occupied West Bank, denounced the Israeli proposal, calling on the international community to intervene to prevent any new military occupation.
Palestinians point out that far-right Israeli ministers have been openly advocating for the full occupation and annexation of Gaza and ultimately want to build new Jewish settlements there.
In 2005, Israel dismantled settlements in the Gaza Strip and withdrew its forces from there.
But alongside Egypt, it maintained a tight control of access to the territory.
The new occupation idea comes amid growing international moves to revive the two-state solution – the long-time international formula to resolve the decades-old Israel-Palestinian conflict. It envisages an independent Palestinian state being created alongside Israel in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with East Jerusalem as its capital.
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Last week, the UK and Canada joined France in announcing conditional plans for recognising a Palestinian state.
The Israeli PM is now expected to meet with key ministers and military leaders to decide next steps in Gaza. Israeli army radio says they are due to discuss initial army plans to surround the central refugee camps and carry out air strikes and ground raids.
Netanyahu said he would convene a full security cabinet meeting this week.
Israeli media commentators have voiced scepticism and drawn attention to the practical military, political and diplomatic challenges. Writing in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, Nahum Barnea says: "Netanyahu has never taken a gamble on this scale before."
He notes that the Israeli PM has repeated his vow to achieve all of his war goals.
"But after 22 months of bloody fighting, it is hard to take those kinds of promises seriously. It seems that Netanyahu has just one objective in the war in Gaza, to prolong the war."
Israel launched its military offensive in Gaza in response to Hamas's attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others taken to Gaza as hostages.
At least 61,020 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since then, the Hamas-run health ministry says.
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S-Whole still using tricks to stay out of jail for his crimes
Harm-ass has no qualms letting its own people, the women and children, suffer and die, like the Hostages held in the tunnels. They should surrender, but that would mean jail & punishment for their war crimes, which are many.
ReplyDeleteHarm-ass leaders living in luxury in Qatar had agreed to the last ceasefire proposal by Isaac, but the Harm-ass terrorist leaders in Gaza rejected it because they know they will face justice.
war crimes? Face the justice?
DeleteMfer, that's why that satanyahu & his gang want to continue the ethnic cleansing war in Gaza!
Harm-ass is 100% responsible for starting this war on Oct 7 and is 100% responsible for prolonging it by not freeing the hostages and surrendering.
ReplyDeleteThey started this war they must finish it; if they cannot or refuse, it will be finished for them. Don’t play victim.
mfer, playing yr f*coed causality twisting lie AGAIN!
DeleteThe Europe rejected zionists started this war they must finish it; if they cannot or refuse, it will be finished for them!
Amazing!
ReplyDelete667 days after the real Nakba and kidnapping of 250 hostages by Harm-ass, the UN Security Council FINALLY meets today to “discuss” and “demand” for their release.
But only after the videos released by Harm-ass boasting their starving of the hostages. Very kejam.
UN is totally biased, infiltrated and full of sampah. Please US kick them out of NYC.
kejam?
DeleteIndeed, UN is totally biased, infiltrated and full of sampah by those zionist sympathizers & bleeding-hearts.
UN sgould move out of NYC, to avoid further corruption!
Like many Universities and Global Media the UN has been infiltrated. More than 50 Ishmael countrys. Only 1 Isaac country. True David & Goliath situation.
ReplyDeleteFrom 2015 through 2023, the UN General Assembly has adopted 154 resolutions specifically against Issac but only 71 against all other countries combined. Amazing!
Might as well rename it JN - Jewnited Nations.
On your "David & Goliath situation" that is yet another Judah-ist kerbau. It was Elhanan, son of Jaare-oregim who killed Goliath.
Delete2 Samuel 21:19 describes a battle between the Israelites and the Philistines at Gob, where Elhanan, son of Jaare-oregim the Bethlehemite, killed Goliath the Gittite.
David was a murderer, adulterer, traitor (to Israel), liar, plagiarist, extortionist (and homosexual, not that modern people care) and the worst character in the bible. Today his Satanyahu-ist descendants show that the apples don't fall far from the tree
yaloh, mfer, u get it right for Jewnited Nations - a pair full of mfering zionist infiltrators, to manipulate world events.
Delete'From 2015 through 2023, the UN General Assembly has adopted 154 resolutions specifically against Issac but only 71 against all other countries combined.'
Mfer, how many of those, tagged against the zionist state have been veto-ed into pure fart by the Yank?
& how many against all other countries combined have been adopted w/o fails?
Amazingly twisted lie, from a self proclaimed zionist infested with H1N5!
I never said David killed Goliath but according to the biblical narrative in 1 Samuel 17: 49-51, David killed Goliath. After taunting the Israelite army, Goliath, a Philistine giant, was struck down by a stone from David's sling. David then beheaded Goliath with the giant's own sword. The Philistines, witnessing their champion's defeat, fled, and were pursued by the Israelites.
DeleteBut I won’t argue with KT who is an expert historian. I only quote from cerita dongeng.
no wonder lah. Using cerita dongeng to lie & fart for fun!
DeleteHarm-ass is prolonging the war to stay out of jail for their crimes:
ReplyDelete1. Oct 7 Nakba
2. Rape & Torture
3. Kidnap 250 people
4. Holding hostages
5. Starving Hostages
6. Weaponizing aid and depriving their own people of aid
7. Waging war wearing civilian clothes
8. Using schools, hospitals and civilian buildings and using civilians as human shields
9. Using child soldiers
Dan lain2 banyak lagi.
How many UN resolutions were discussed against these war crimes? None. UN is sampah..
Dan lain2 banyak lagi bermula dari tarikh Yehudi berkumpul di Palatin!
DeleteUN is sampah bcoz of the manipulations of zionists sympathizers & meme-ed bleeding-hearts in fallout efforts to protect the zionist state. The mfering zionist state should be the 1st ever UN member been kicked out of the UN door.
UK Channel 4 Journalist interviews Isaac mother live on TV and instantly regrets it as she calmly and clearly tears down the argument for a Two State Solution.
ReplyDeleteNah, tonton lah you naive and simple minded people.
https://youtu.be/Vnzmau9zZTE?feature=shared
Starmer, Macron, Carney, hope you all will start offering refuge to the “starving” Gazans, I would not be surprised if all 2 million will all be happy to abandon their “Right of Return” status and head straight to Londontown, Paris and Toronto.
Good Luck!!!
Sampah based on personal feeling!
DeleteThe Palestinians would have rejected the 2state solution too - with a very different arguments.
There r such interviews done by other media.
Why r u so selective in fishing out all those f*cked zionist propagandasto suit yr fart?
Contrary to yr 'surprised if all 2 million will all be happy to abandon their “Right of Return” status and head straight to Londontown, Paris and Toronto', the truth is the Palestinians ARE NOT taking up this zionist initiated farts. They will defend their native land till am those mfering Europe rejected zionists going back to where they come from - if ever they would be welcomed!