Israeli Military Chief Opposes Netanyahu Plan To Expand Gaza Occupation

KURSALEM/KAIRO, August 6 (Reuters) – Israel’s military chief, Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to seize Gaza regions, three Israeli officials, both abroad and abroad faced the increasing pressure on the war.

During a three -hour meeting on Tuesday, the military Chief of General Staff Eyal Zamir warned the Prime Minister that he could trap the army in the area where the rest of Gaza were taken twenty years ago and could harm hostages there.

The Israeli army says that after about two years of war, 75% of Gaza, which began when the militant group Hamas attacked the Southern Israeli communities in October 2023. The military administration has repeatedly opposed the entertainment, annexation of the region, and the outpatient clickers supported by some members of the government. Netanyahu has an intense international pressure to reach the ceasefire in the coastal settlement, which is reduced to rubble in a fight. Most of the population of about 2 million have been displaced many times, and the aid groups say that residents are on the verge of famine.

The UN called on a possible expansion of Israel’s military operations in Gaza.

The army accused Hamas of operating among civilians, and from time to time, the intelligence avoided the areas where the proposed hostages were kept, and the old prisoners said that their prisoners threatened to kill them when the Israeli forces approached.

Netanyahu told Zamir that the army could not be released hostages so far. Most of those released so far have emerged as a result of diplomatic negotiations.

Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday that he had the right and duty of the military chief’s opinion, but he said he would fulfill the government’s decisions until all the war targets were achieved.

The Prime Ministry confirmed the meeting with pronoun on Tuesday, but refused to comment more and did not respond to the request for comments.

Prime Minister’s military plans for Gaza on Thursday are planned to meet with other ministers. A fourth source said Netanyahu wanted to expand the military operations in Gaza to put pressure on Hamas.

Netanyahu said that in May, Israel will control the entire Gaza, leading the most right -wing coalition government in the history of Israel, and some key partners threatened to leave if the government ended the war.

After a 40 -minute meeting with the Prime Minister on Wednesday, the opposition leader Yair Lapid told journalists, Netanyahu said that the people were not interested in continuing the war and a complete military transfer would be a very bad idea.

A public survey conducted by Israel’s Channel 12 last month supported a diplomatic agreement that would end the war and allow hostages to be released.

There are still 50 hostages in Gaza, which are still believed to be alive. The videos published by Hamas and Palestine Islamic Jihad, another militant group in Gaza, triggered the international condemnation of weakened prisoners in the last week.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, nearly 200 Palestinian Gaza has died in Gaza since the war began. According to local health officials, more than 20 people died on Wednesday, when a truck believed to carry overturned food because it was driven by a desperate crowd.

The latest cease -fire talks in Qatar broke down last month. While Hamas insists that any agreement should end the war a permanent end, Israel then accuses and must be defeated.

The expansion of the military attack in densely populated areas will probably be destructive.

“Where will we go?” Tamer Al-Burera said, A Palestinian, who is located on the edge of Deir Al Balah in the center of Gaza.

“If people get overthrown or wait to wait to die under the rubble of their homes? We want to put an end to this war, enough, enough,” he said.

The war in Gaza expanded Israel’s army, which had a small army and had to mobilize the reserves over and over again. It is not clear whether more reserves are required to expand the operations and get more zones.

The Gaza Ministry of Health continued to carry out air strikes throughout Gaza on Wednesday and killed at least 135 people in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said, since the beginning of the conflict, mostly civilians are more than 61,000.

According to Israeli Tallies, about 1,200 people, including more than 700 civilians and 251 hostages taken to Gaza after the Israeli attack of Hamas, were killed.