Israel is launching Gaza City’s ground invasion

Almost two years after his military reprisals offensive in the Gaza Strip, Israel said that he had launched a long cup on Gaza City.

“TSAhal troops began to extend the ground operations to Gaza City as part of Operation Gideon Chariots II,” the Israeli defense forces on social networks said on Tuesday.

“Gaza burns,” said Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said earlier in the day, in a separate update on Google. “We will not give in or come back-until the mission is finished,” he added.

The soil invasion marks a deepening of the offensive of Israel in the Gaza Strip, which once housed 2.2 million people and became a battlefield struck with famine. Gaza City, previously the most populous urban colony in the enclave, still houses hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians.

Israel insists that his campaign targets the demilitarization of Hamas and the release of the hostages taken by the Palestinian militant group after its terrorist attacks in October 2023.

Addressing journalists when he was preparing to leave Israel, the American Secretary of State for a visit noted that an invasion on the ground of Gaza City was imminent.

“Well, as you saw, the Israelis began to take operations there. So we think we have a very short time window in which an agreement could occur. We have no months,” he said. “Our preference, our number one choice is that it ends with a regulation negotiated with Hamas.”

CNBC contacted the FDI and the Israeli Foreign Affairs to comment.

The military progress of Israel in Gaza has increasingly isolated the Jewish state on the international scene.

Several Western countries initially supported Israeli law in self -defense and to continue Hamas militarily after terrorist attacks of the Palestinian militant group, but have since noted the perceived disproportionality of the Gaza campaign of the Jewish State for civilians.

The nations, norms of Norway, Spain and Ireland, recognized the Palestinian state in the spring of 2024, France, Canada and Australia later announcing plans to make the same stage this month. In a blow to the administration of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a report by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed a genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza enclave.

The non -communicated report does not officially speak for the UN, which has not yet used the term “genocide”.

In November 2024, the International Criminal Court published arrest mandates against Netanyahu, its former Minister of Defense and Hamas officials for war crimes and crimes against humanity on the Gaza conflict and October 2023 Terror OSTASS.

Tuesday’s conclusions of the United Nations Commission could bring an additional reputation for Israel, which has sought to maintain work links with international partners. In August, the largest sovereign fund in the world, Norges Bank Investment Management, said that he had left his investments in the American manufacturer of Caterpillar machines and five Israeli banks following an examination of business links with the Gaza conflict. Germany has meanwhile interrupted the export of weapons to Israel in the Gaza Strip.

Larger market reactions have been attenuated, unless brief petroleum prices when Israel has entered into direct confrontations with Hamas’ gross boss Iran and other teheran proxies, such as the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and the Yemen Houthis.

However, the Arab Nations of the Middle East on oil – many of which are entertaining or establish solid relations with the United States – are unlikely to protest against Israel’s current aggression in Gaza thanks to an oil embargo, as in 1973, according to experts.

“We would really have to see the great oil producers in the region – Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Iran – join and create an oil embargo,” Murphy de Marko Papic, Macro and Geopolitics of BCA Research, Dan Murphy de CNBC told Dan Murphy. “There is absolutely no question of this, and therefore I think it will continue to be completely and completely unrelated to global investors.”

He also minimized the chances of success of the latest Gaza offensive of Israel, which he described as “yet another foray which is unlikely to remove Hamas, and reason is that Hamas is an ideology that will persist, either in its current form, or in a future form”.

Despite this, the invasion of Israel threatens to break the already fragile political relations of the Jewish state with its Arab neighbors, many of which have historically supported the Palestinian cause. The invasion of the city of Gaza intervenes after the Arab and Muslim leaders gathered in Qatar and called for an examination of links with Israel after the country’s strike in Doha last week.

The Emir of Qatar urged leaders to take “concrete measures” against Israel in response to a missile strike on Doha who killed six people, including a Qatari national. Israel said that the strike was aimed at the political leadership of Hamas, which was discussed, at the time, from the last cease-fire proposal from Washington. Doha has long acted as a mediator between Israel and Hamas, welcoming the group’s political bureau for many years.

Opinions on Israel are divided among other nations of the Gulf. The water signed the Abraham agreements in 2020, recognizing Israel and establishing diplomatic normalization with Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco after years of Arab isolation. The agreement is now faced with “the most difficult period since its signature five years ago,” Abdulkhaleq Abdulla told CNBC, academic and political scientist, Abdulkhaleq Abdulla.

President Donald Trump, for his part, has given himself the mission of improving the links between Israel and other Arab nations, cementing the influence of Washington in the Middle East.

Saudi Arabia is Trump’s next hope for the standardization of relations with Israel, but it could now be out of reach. Crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman indicated that this step would require a credible and irreversible path to the creation of a Palestinian state.

For the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, the current death problems in Gaza and the potential Israeli annexation of the West Bank could jeopardize Trump’s ambitions to extend Abraham’s agreements during his second term.

“Although relations can continue to be resilient, they take a different nature – limited scope, mainly under the radar, focusing on safety interests and significant public dimension,” Nimrod Goren, president and founder of Mitvim told CNBC.

“If the Israeli government decides to annex any part of the Palestinian territories in the West Bank, following the future recognitions of a Palestinian State, then the links with the Arab countries will suffer another blow and deteriorate more. Israel should refrain from such a stage, and the United States should stop such intentions,” he added.