Israel plans to capture the entire Gaza Strip, the authorities say, since tens of thousands of reservists called

The Israel government approved the plans on Monday so that its forces capture the entire Gaza Strip and remain in the territory for an amount of time not specified, two Israeli officials said to News. The plans appear to greatly expand Israel’s operations in the Palestinian territory devastated by warand they are likely to bring a fierce international opposition.

The Israeli cabinet ministers approved the plan in an early morning vote, just after the Israeli military chief said the army was calling tens of thousands of reserve soldiers for an assault expanded to the strip.

The news occurred hours after a Houthi missile strike on Sunday pointed to Ben-Gurion airport of Tel Aviv for the first time since the war began, briefly stopping flights and injuring four people slightly. Israeli officials quickly promised to respond.

Israel’s expansion plan, which officials said that AP is destined to help achieve the country’s war objectives to defeat Hamas and release hostages that are still in Gaza, would push hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to the south of Gaza, exacerbating a Terrible crisis In the enclave.

In a video message posted on Monday on social networks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not confirm the intention that the Israel Army took control of the entire strip, but said the operation would be “intensive.”

The European Union was among the first international entities to express concern about the perspective of Israeli military operations extended in Gaza, with the spokesman Anouar El-Aouni saying that an escalation “would result in lower results and sufferings for the Palestinian population” and urge Israeli forces to exercise the restriction of maximum restriction “, according to the French news agency News.

From a stop the fire between Israel and Hamas collapsed in mid -March With a renewed Israeli assault, Israel’s defense forces have unleashed fierce strikes in the territory that have killed hundreds. The IDF have captured stripes of territory and now controls approximately half of Gaza. Before the truce ended, Israel stopped all humanitarian aid in Gaza, including food, fuel and water, activating what is believed to be the worst humanitarian crisis in almost 19 months of war.

The prohibition of aid has caused a generalized hunger and the shortage has triggered the looting, according to help agencies that work in the enclave.

Netanyahu says that the population of Gaza “will move”

Israeli officials said the plan included the “capture of the strip and the celebration of territories.”

With the plan, officials said Israel also wants to prevent Hamas from distributing humanitarian aid in the enclave that is controlled for almost two decades, which Israel says that it strengthens its government over Gaza. Israeli officials have accused Hamas of maintaining help materials for themselves, to reinforce their abilities. The plan also includes more powerful attacks against Hamas’ objectives, officials said.

They added that Israel was in contact with several countries about President Trump’s plan for the United States to “take over” of Gaza and relocate its population of approximately 2 million Palestinians. Israeli officials have said that it will imply “voluntary emigration”, but the suggestion that so many civilians could be transferred outside the territory have caused the condemnation of Israel’s allies in Europe, and their Arab neighbors, whom Trump said he would take the relocated masses.

In his video message on Monday, Netanyahu said that the “population of Gaza will move, by their own protection,” without offering details.

When asked on Monday about the Israeli plans, the spokesman of the US National Security Council. Uu. Brian Hughes said that President Trump remained “committed to ensuring the immediate release of hostages and the end of the Hamas rule in Gaza”, reiterating the position of the White House that “Hamas has the exclusive responsibility of this conflict, and by the resumption of hostilities.”

One of the Israeli officials told the AP that the plan would be implemented gradually. Both officials spoke about anonymity because they were discussing secret military plans.

Israel has tried for weeks to increase the pressure on Hamas to show more flexibility in the high fire negotiations. But international mediators trying to bring to a new agreement have fought to do so. Israel’s measures, especially the ongoing strikes and the full aid block and other materials that enter Gaza, do not seem to have remote Hamas from their negotiation positions. The group, designated for a long time a terrorist organization of Israel, the United States and the European Union, has demanded that Israel accept a complete retirement of Gaza as part of any durable fire.

The high the previous fire was destined to bring the parties to negotiate the end of the war, but that goal has been a repeated conflict point in the conversations between Israel and Hamas. Israel says he will not agree to end the war until Hamas is defeated.

Israel’s announcement of an expansion of military operations enraged the families of the remaining Israeli hostages. The Hostage Families Forum, which supports families, said on Monday that the plan puts all hostages at risk and urged Israel’s decision makers to ensure an agreement that prioritizes hostages, up to 24 of which Israeli officials believe they are still alive.

At a meeting of the Israeli legislators committee on Monday, Einav Zangauker, whose son Matan is among the hostages that are still in Gaza, asked the soldiers to “not report for the reserve service for moral and ethical reasons.”

Israeli officials did not reveal details of how the plan seeks to prevent Hamas from participating in the distribution of aid. One said the ministers had approved “the aid distribution option”, without elaborating.

Private security to control Gaza Aid?

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

The memorandum, sent to the aid organizations on Sunday, detailed notes of a meeting between the Israeli defense agency in charge of coordinating help for Gaza, Cogat and the UN.

According to Cogat’s planned plan, all help would enter Gaza through the crossing of Kerem Shalom del Sur, including approximately 60 trucks per day, although the contents of the convoys were not clarified, nor how many people would have access to help. Previously, the UN and other aid suppliers have said that hundreds of trucks per day are necessary to carry food and other vital materials in Gaza.

The memorandum said that the aid would be distributed in the logistics centers administered by private security companies, and that facial recognition would be used to identify the Palestinians in the centers and SMS alerts would be used to notify people in the area that could come to collect help.

Humanitarian workers say that the plan to centralize help, instead of delivering it to the Palestinians where they are, will force more people. The fight has already displaced more than 90% of the population of Gaza, often several times, and turned a large part of Gaza into an inhabitable lunary landscape.

The UN said the plan would leave large parts of the population, including the most vulnerable, without supplies. He said the plan “seems designed to reinforce control over the elements that maintain life as a pressure tactic, as part of a military strategy.”

In a statement on Monday, Hamas said that he firmly rejected the Israeli plan to control the distribution of aid, qualifying it from a plan to “convert aid into a tool for political blackmail or subject to Israel’s conditions,” which said “it constitutes a violation of international law and an extension of the starvation policy.”

The memorandum says that the United States government has expressed a clear support for Israel’s plan, but it is not clear who would provide funds for private military companies or help. Cogat and the United States embassy in Jerusalem did not immediately respond to a request for comments.

Israeli officials have repeatedly denied a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and said there is enough food in the territory, blaming Hamas for not distributing it to civilians.

Earlier this week, News obtained dozens of documents about the concerns of the help groups that the aid distribution centers could end up permanently displacing the Palestinians and forcing them to live in “de facto detention conditions.”

Potentially capturing and occupying Gaza again for an indefinite period would not only handle more hope for Palestinian status, but would embed Israel within a population that is deeply hostile and would ask questions about how Israel plans to govern the territory, especially at a time when he is considering how to implement the vision of President Trump for Gaza.

Israel launched its war in Gaza in response to the terrorist attack of October 7, 2023, led by Hamas, against southern Israel, during which 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken as hostages back to Gaza. The Israeli offensive has killed more than 52,000 people in Gaza, many of them women and children, according to Palestinian health officials in the territory governed by Hamas, who do not distinguish between combatants and civilians.

Israel occupied Gaza during a war in 1967, but withdrew the troops and colonists of the enclave in 2005. Two years later, Hamas took over and has controlled the territory since then.

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