Netanyahu propose a complete reoccupation of Gaza, Israeli media report

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must propose to fully reappear the Gaza band when he meets his security firm, according to Israeli media.

“The die has been sunk. We are going for the complete conquest of the Gaza Strip – and beating Hamas”, local journalists cite a senior official.

Responding to the information according to which the chief of the army and the other military leaders oppose the plan, the anonymous official said: “If that does not work for the chief of staff, he should resign.”

The families of the hostages fear that such plans can endanger their loved ones, with 20 out of 50 which would be alive in Gaza, while the polls suggest that three out of four Israelis promote a cease-fire agreement to return them.

Many allies close to Israel would also condemn such a decision that they push at the end of the war and action to alleviate a humanitarian crisis.

In Israel, hundreds of retired Israeli security officials, including former intelligence agency heads, published a joint letter to US President Donald Trump on Monday, the appeal to put pressure on Netanyahu to end the war.

One of the signatories, the head of the intelligence intelligence agency, Ami Ayalon, told the BBC that a new military action would be futile.

“From a military point of view, (Hamas) is completely destroyed. On the other hand, as an ideology, he obtains more and more power among the Palestinian people, in the Arab street around us, and also in the world of Islam.

“So the only way to overcome Hamas’s ideology is to present a better future.”

The latest developments come after indirect discussions with Hamas on a cease-fire contract and hostages have broken and Palestinian armed groups have published three videos of two Israeli hostages that look weak and emaciated.

The images of Romo Blaslavski and Evyatar David, both kidnapped from the Nova festival on October 7, 2023, shocked and dismayed the Israelis. David is shown by digging what he says to be his own grave in an underground tunnel.

There has been speculation that the latest media announcements are a pressure tactic to try to force Hamas to a new agreement.

The Israeli army says it already has an operational control of 75% of Gaza. But under the proposed plan, it would occupy the entire territory – moving in areas where more than two million Palestinians are now concentrated.

We do not know what it would mean for civilians and for UN operations and other aid groups. About 90% of the 2.1 million people in Gaza were moved, some on several occasions and live in overcrowded and disastrous conditions. Humanitarian groups and UN officials say that many are hungry, accusing Israel of hampering the distribution of crucial aid.

The Israeli army previously retained in certain regions, including parts of the center of Gaza, due to the hypothesis that there are living hostages held there. Last year, six Israeli hostages were executed by their captors after the ground forces moved.

There was no official response, but those responsible for the Palestinian authority, which governs parts of the occupied West Bank, denounced the Israeli proposal, calling on the international community to intervene to prevent any new military occupation.

The Palestinians point out that the far -right Israeli ministers openly pleaded for the complete occupation and the annexation of Gaza and finally want to build new Jewish colonies there.

In 2005, Israel dismantled colonies in the Gaza Strip and withdrew its forces from there.

But alongside Egypt, he maintained a close control of access to the territory.

The new idea of occupation comes in the midst of growing international movements to relaunch the solution to two states – the long -standing international formula to resolve the Israeli -Palestinian conflict for several decades. It provides for an independent Palestinian state created alongside Israel in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with East Jerusalem as capital.

Last week, the United Kingdom and Canada joined France to announce conditional plans to recognize a Palestinian state.

The Israeli Prime Minister should now meet key ministers and military leaders to decide on the next stages of Gaza. The Israeli army radio said that they should discuss the army’s initial plans to surround the central refugee camps and carry out air strikes and raids on the ground.

Netanyahu said he would summon a complete meeting of the security firm this week.

Israeli media commentators have expressed skepticism and attracted attention to practical military, political and diplomatic challenges. Writing in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, Nahum Barnea says: “Netanyahu has never taken a bet on this scale before.”

He notes that the Israeli Prime Minister repeated his wish to achieve all his war objectives.

“But after 22 months of bloody fighting, it is difficult to take these kinds of promises seriously. It seems that Netanyahu has only one objective in the war in Gaza, to prolong the war.”

Israel launched its military offensive in Gaza in response to the attack on Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, 2023, during which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 other people taken to Gaza as hostages.

At least 61,020 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since then, the Ministry of Health managed by Hamas said.