What we know about the plan of Israel to resume Gaza City

The Israel security firm approved a plan to take control of Gaza City, in a controversial escalation of its war in Gaza.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians live in the city north of the Gaza Strip. It was the most populous city in the enclave before the war.

The plan faces a fierce opposition in Israel – including military officials and hostage families – and the international community.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had told Fox News earlier that Israel planned to occupy the entire Gaza Strip and “finally put him back to the Arab forces”. Many are still very clear, but here is what we know about the new plan.

The plan – or the “five principles to end war” includes:

• The disarmament of Hamas
• The return of all hostages, both alive and dead
• The demilitarization of the Gaza Strip
• Israeli security check on the Gaza Strip
• The creation of an alternative civil administration which is neither Hamas nor the Palestinian authority.

The FDI said the soldiers would prepare to take control of Gaza City while providing humanitarian aid to the “civilian population outside of combat areas”.

It is not known if it is a new aid, and if it will be delivered by the controversy Israel and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation supported by the United States or another mechanism.

Before the meeting of the cabinet, Netanyahu said he wanted Israel to control all Gaza.

In the new plan, only Gaza City is mentioned.

Israel said that it currently controlled 75% of Gaza, while the UN estimates that 86% of the territory is either in militarized areas or under evacuation orders.

The plan aims to move the Israeli forces to take control of the largest city in the enclave for the first time during this conflict.

It houses a million residents and is surrounded by land which have already been under the control of the FDI or subject to an evacuation order.

City control is probably the first phase of a large-scale takeover of the Gaza strip, said our Middle East correspondent Hugo Bachega.

There have also been speculation that the threat of a complete occupation could be part of a strategy to exert pressure on Hamas to make concessions in the downside.

Netanyahu told Fox News that Israel “did not want to keep it” and intends to put it back to “Arab forces”.

“We want to have a security perimeter. We do not want to govern it,” he said at the point of sale.

Israel did not say when the takeover begins, but reports in the Israeli media suggest that the military will not immediately move to the city of Gaza – and residents will have to be evacuated first.

Israel said he thought that the “alternative plan” presented to his office would not “make Hamas’ defeat or the return of the kidnapped”.

However, it is not clear what the alternative plan was or who had submitted it. The Israeli media reports that it was a more limited proposal from the military chief of staff.

Netanyahu is “intentionally vague” on the Arab forces which he may name, according to the international correspondent in chief of the BBC, Lyse Doucet, as he was in the past with his plans for Gaza.

He can refer to the Jordanians and the Egyptians, who said that they were ready to work with Israel – but they clearly indicated that they would not go to Gaza in the back of an Israeli occupation.

No more details have been shared concerning a calendar for the Gaza post-Takeover government, and Hamas has not yet responded to the plan.

Netanyahu faces growing criticism of hostage families and world leaders.

For some time now, the military leaders of Israel have said that their work in Gaza is done because Hamas no longer represents a threat as an organized military force.

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer described Israel’s escalation as “bad” and that he “will no longer bring blood out of blood”.

Israel’s decision to extend military operations to Gaza is a “declaration of a war crime,” said the president of the Palestinian national initiative Mustafa Barghouti.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has said that Israel aims to “move the Palestinians on force on their own land”, while the Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs Elina Valtonen said that she hoped for an immediate Gaza-Le-Feu ceasefire and an immediate liberation from Israeli hostages.

Australia has also urged the reservoir, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong, saying that a takeover of Gaza City “will only worsen the humanitarian disaster in Gaza”.

The UN Human Rights Head, Volker Türk, says that “the war in Gaza must end now” and warns that a new escalation “will lead to a more massive forced displacement, more murder, more unbearable suffering, insane destruction and crimes of atrocity”.

The headquarters of the hostage families forum said that the decision “leads us to a colossal disaster for hostages and our soldiers”.

There was information that the Americans had given Netanyahu the green light to take over the city of Gaza.

But it should be noted that NBC News reported a fiery telephone conversation between US President Donald Trump and Netanyahu at the end of July – which the president called “Fake News”.

Additional reports by Ruth Comerford.