Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that a new offensive in the besieged Gaza Strip will be an intensive military operation to defeat Hamas, but has ceased to how much the Enclave territory would be seized.
In a video -language video message on X, addressing the plan approved by the security firm to extend the Gaza offensive, Netanyahu said on Monday that the Palestinian Gaza population “will be moved, for their own protection.”
Eighteen months of Israeli attacks killed more than 52,000, including thousands of children, and injured nearly 120,000.
Netanyahu also said that Israeli soldiers would not enter Gaza, would not launch raids and then withdraw. “The intention is the opposite of this,” he said.
His remarks came while the political and military leaders of Israel approved the plans to extend the Gaza offensive and take charge of devastated and hungry enclave aid deliveries.
Netanyahu’s cabinet unanimously approved the plans to call the reservists and put the Israeli army in charge of food and other vital supplies with 2.3 million people suffering from its blockade from Palestinian territory.
Newswires reported that named Israeli officials suggesting that plans include the “conquest” and the occupation of the whole Gaza Strip.
The extended offensive “could go so far as to seize the whole enclave,” reported the reuters news agency.
“The plan will include, among other things, the conquest of the Gaza Strip and the detention of the territories, by moving the population of Gaza to the South for their protection,” a source told the AFP news agency.
The source added that Netanyahu “continues to promote” the plan of American president Donald Trump for the voluntary departure of the Palestinians of the enclave.
The plan also includes the possibility that Israel takes up the supply of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
According to Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian refugee council, this violates “humanitarian principles”.
“United Nations agencies, all other international humanitarian groups and NGOs have said that not being part of this idea from the Israeli and Israeli army,” Egeland told Tel Aviv Tribune.
Egeland said the Israeli government wanted to “militarize, manipulate, politicize aid by allowing only a few concentration centers in the South, a program where people will be projected where it is a completely inoperable system”.
“It would force people to move to get help, and it would continue the famine of the civilian population,” he added.
The Israeli government has rejected complaints from the aid groups according to which famine tracks the enclave, despite having blocked the entry of all supplies on March 2 to 2, 16 days before resuming its assault.
Citing an anonymous Israeli official, the Times of Israel said that the plan would imply “international organizations and private security entrepreneurs (handing) for foods” to Gaza families.
Israeli soldiers would provide “a safety layer outside private entrepreneurs and international organizations distributing aid,” said the point of sale.
Heated
Earlier, the Israel Hayom newspaper and the Times of Israel cited sources saying that the plan would include the occupation of Gaza.
This is something that Hamas has strongly rejected.
Addressing Tel Aviv Tribune, the senior manager of Hamas, Mahmoud Mardawi, said that the group would only accept an agreement with Israel, which includes a full ceasefire and the complete withdrawal of Gaza.
“Our people has no choice but to achieve a complete case that guarantees the security and security of our people,” he said, adding that all Israeli efforts to make concessions by threats or mass killings would fail.
The revelations also aroused significant tension within Israel.
Netanyahu said again that the goal was to “defeat” Hamas and bring several dozen captives detained in Gaza.
However, the Smarting and Families Forum missing, an Israeli campaign group, the plan “sacrifices” those who are still held on Palestinian territory on Monday.
Animated disagreements would also have broken out during the meeting of the cabinet between political and military levels.
The head of the army Eyal Zamir would have warned that Israel could “lose” the captives in Gaza if he advanced a full -fledged military offensive.
Far-right Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir said that, as Israel has done in the past two months, he should continue to block all food, water, drugs, fuel and other aids in Gaza to starve the population.
He also pleaded to “bomb warehouses and generators”, so there are no more supplies and electricity is completely cut.
But Zamir warned that it would “endanger” Israel because he would expose the country to even more allegations of violations of international law.
“You don’t understand what you are saying. You put us all.
In an interview with the radio of the Israeli army, the opposition leader, Yair Lapid, questioned Netanyahu’s decision to mobilize tens of thousands of reservists, saying that the Prime Minister called troops and extended his service without set an objective for the operation.
Another opposition figure, Yair Golan, said that Netanyahu was only trying to save his government to collapse while the plan “is useless and does not bring the release of hostages closer”.
Help in security areas as “military strategy”
Ben-Gvir would have been the only member of the security firm opposed to the plan of Israel to bypass the existing aid routes by international organizations.
Israel plans to use American security entrepreneurs to control the aid flow in Gaza.
However, the plan should not come into force immediately, because Israeli officials believe that there is enough food in Gaza for the moment, even if the Palestinians are starving.
Israeli plans are also considering the creation of a new “humanitarian zone” in the south of Gaza which would operate as a help.
The team of humanitarian countries (HCT), a forum which includes United Nations agencies, said on Sunday that Israeli officials were looking for its consent to provide aid by what he described as “Israeli centers under conditions established by the Israeli army, once the government has agreed to reopen the level passages”.
In a press release, the HCT said that such a plan would be dangerous and “will violate fundamental humanitarian principles and seem designed to strengthen the control of life suspension elements as a pressure tactic – within the framework of a military strategy”.
The coalition said that the UN would not participate in this program because it does not adhere to the world humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, independence and neutrality.
This position was supported by Hamas, which marked the plans of Israel on Monday for the provision of assistance to the adaptation of “political blackmail”.
“We reject the use of aid as a political blackmail tool and support the UN position against any arrangement that violates humanitarian principles,” the armed group said in a statement, insisting that Israel is “fully responsible” for the “humanitarian disaster” in Gaza.
Humanitarian organizations have declared that their teams “remain in Gaza, ready to increase the provision of supplies and critical services: food, water, health, nutrition, protection and more”.
They urged the world leaders to use their influence to lift the blockade so that the “important actions” pending at the border can be delivered.
In February 2024, more than 100 Palestinians were killed when Israeli soldiers opened fire on desperate Palestinians while waiting for trucks offering food, in what has become the “massacre of flour”.
The Israeli army has recognized that it had coordinated the convoy with private entrepreneurs, rather than the UN or other humanitarian aid organizations with safe food aid experience.
The American army also tried to build a floating pier of $ 230 million in May 2024, such as another means of providing assistance to Gaza. But the structure subject to the problems was closed months later, after giving birth to the equivalent of about a day of pre-war food deliveries.
Five people were killed in March 2024 in one of the many efforts to deliver food by aerial drops. Humanitarian groups have said that Airdrops are unable to replace the quantities necessary to deliver food to more than 2 million people living in Gaza.