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5/5/2025–|Last update: 5/5/202503:01 AM (Mecca time)
The mini -cabinet in Israel unanimously agreed to expand the military operation in the Gaza Strip, and the American website Axius confirmed that the decision to expand the military operation will not come into effect until after the visit of US President Donald Trump to the Middle East.
The American website indicated that the period before Trump’s visit will witness the continued efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement in Gaza.
US State Department spokeswoman Tami Bruce told Fox News that Washington is continuing to work to reach a ceasefire agreement in Gaza.
The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation has confirmed that the military operation that was presented to the participants in the miniature cabinet was a gradual process It includes wider operations in a specific area in the Gaza Strip, followed by a wide operation in other areas, Adding that the plan is stipulated that the broad and strong military operation will continue for several months.
The Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, confirmed the release Tens of thousands of calls for reserve soldiers to expand the military operation in Gaza.
The Israeli channel 13 quoted informed sources as saying that Zamir warned the political leadership of the repercussions of expanding the ground process over the lives of the detainees in Gaza, She added that he indicated a problem with two goals that oppose war, namely re -detainees and defeat Hamas.
Lapid’s criticism
Before the mini cabinet meeting, the leader of the Israeli opposition, Yair Lubid, criticized the decision to expand the war on Gaza, and said that the government of Benjamin Netanyahu decided to expand the war at a time when the Israeli army suffers from a shortage of soldiers that led him to summon reserve soldiers who had previously served hundreds of days.
Labid said through his X -platform account that Israel has had Shaaban, the first is fighting and killing in the war, while the other evades military service. He pointed out that, since the start of the war, the army issued about 19,000 recruitment orders to the Haraidim, and only 232 people committed to them, adding that 99% of the Haridim who received the recruitment order did not abide and evaded the service.
On March 18, the Israeli army resumed the extermination war on the Gaza Strip – according to the description of international experts – after it was dismissed from the ceasefire agreement concluded last January.
The Israeli army sought to divide the besieged sector into several regions and isolate them from each other, and destroyed most buildings and installations in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.