Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would give the final approval of the Gaza City seizure while restarting negotiations with Hamas aimed at returning all the remaining captives and at the end of the war of almost two years, but to “acceptable terms for Israel”.
Addressing soldiers near Gaza on Thursday, Netanyahu said that he was still on the approval of plans to grasp Gaza City, the center densely populated in the heart of the Palestinian enclave, forcibly shifting nearly 1 million people and performing the systematic demition of Palestinian households.
“At the same time, I gave instructions to start the immediate negotiations for the release of all our hostages and the end of the war on acceptable conditions for Israel,” said Netanyahu, adding: “We are in the decision -making phase.”
The large -scale operation in Gaza City could start a few days after Netanyahu grants final approval at a meeting with senior security officials on Thursday.
Israeli forces have already intensified attacks, and thousands of Palestinians left their house while Israeli tanks approached Gaza City in the past 10 days.
Hamas said earlier this week that he had accepted a cease-fire proposal for the mediators of Qatar and Egypt, which, if they were accepted by Israel, could prevent assault.
The Israeli army plans to call 60,000 reservists and extend the service of 20,000 others.
The proposal on the table provides a 60-day ceasefire and the release of 10 living captives held in Gaza by Hamas and 18 bodies. In turn, Israel would release around 200 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
Once the ceasefire is temporary, the proposal is that Hamas and Israel are starting negotiations on a permanent cease-fire which would include the return of the remaining captives.
Marwan Bishara, Tel Aviv Tribune’s main political analyst, compared Netanyahu’s announcement on the recovery of alleged truce talks while the army degenerates its assault against Gaza City for “negotiation under fire”.
“There will be no stop of the fighting. There will be no break in the genocide. Hamas will have to decide while Israel kills dozens, perhaps hundreds of Palestinians who advance (and) while it transfers a million Palestinians to the South in Gaza,” said Bishara.
“Israel now dictated all the terms, and he does not listen to anyone, and he has a green light from Washington.”
At least 48 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since dawn, including 16 help seekers who were the last shots at the GHF aid distribution points.
Meanwhile, two other people are hungry to death in Gaza in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health announced on Thursday. The new deaths have increased the number of Palestinians who died of hunger induced by Israeli to 271, including 112 children, since the start of the war.
“Systematic destruction”
A renewed Israeli offensive could make even more victims and trips to the famine territory. The United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) estimated that 90% of Gaza residents have been moved, warning that shelters deteriorate and that any other trip will aggravate the catastrophic situation.
The Palestinian Interior Ministry denounced the push of Israel to seize the city of Gaza as a “death sentence” for more than a million people who live there.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health has also published a statement that it says to be an Israeli thrust to transfer the resources of the health system to the south of the enclave.
“The Ministry of Health expresses its rejection of any stage that would undermine what remains of the health system after the systematic destruction carried out by the Israeli occupation authorities,” he said.
“This stage would deprive more than a million people from their right to treatment and would put the lives of residents, patients and injured at imminent risks.”
According to residents, some Palestinian families in the city of Gaza have left for shelters along the coast, while others moved to the center and south of the enclave.
“We are faced with a bitter and bitter situation, to die at home or to go elsewhere. As long as this war continues, survival is uncertain,” said Rabah Abu Elias, 67, a father of seven, at the Reuters press agency.
“In the news, they speak of a possible truce, on the ground, we only hear explosions and see the dead. Who leave Gaza City or not is not an easy decision to take,” he said.
Meanwhile, Israeli air attacks also destroyed a tent camp in Deir El-Balah, Central Gaza, where many people have sought refuge. The residents said that the Israeli army warned them to flee shortly before the attacks made Allame.
Families, many of whom with children, could later be seen through the ashes for the personal effects they had managed to take with them during previous evacuations.
Mohammad Kahlout, who had been moved from Northern Gaza, told the Associated Press that they had only given five minutes to collect what they could and flee.
“We are civilians, not terrorists. What did we do, and what have our children did to have moved again? ”
