What to know about Israel’s plan to retake Gaza City
Israel announced early on Friday Plans to take over the City of GazaThe largest urban area in the region and repeated Israeli raids have already experienced a great destruction.
In one of the few areas of Gaza, another major floor operation will not be under the evacuation orders, but will probably lead to more mass displacement and disrupt the efforts further To offer desperate foods In the region where there are experts warned that famine emerged.
Israel has encountered calls from most of its closest allies to end the war, and the plan, Hamas and Security organization members are faced with opposition in Israel, one of the families of the hostages of 20 hostages who live in the military.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is needed to return hostages and achieve their goals to return Hamas.
There is not much left in the City of Gaza
Israel has repeatedly bombed Gaza City and launched major ground operations there within weeks of the attack that triggered Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack. A few neighborhoods and basic infrastructure It was almost completely destroyed.
On the eve of the war, which hosted 700,000 people about the Washington population, it was the most crowded city of Gaza, DC hundreds of thousands of people fled under the evacuation orders at the beginning of the war, but Many of them returned during the ceasefire early this year.
Israel has already controlled approximately 75% of Gaza and has greatly destroyed, currently, most of the 2 million Palestinian population, Gaza city, the central city of Deir al-Balah, and the expanding camps in the Muwasi region along the coast.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, Israel’s attack killed more than 61,000 Palestinians, which did not say how many people were warriors or civilians. The Ministry is a part of the government operated by Hamas and is working by medical experts. The UN and independent experts see their figures as the most reliable estimate of war losses. Israel objected to them, but on its own.
Opposition in Israel
Another big ground operation is almost absolutely absolutely The killing of more Israeli soldiers Vur and how many attacks erode internal support for war and endanger the remaining hostages.
The militants, led by Hamas, killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians in the October 7 attack, and kidnapped 251 hostages. Most of them have been released in hot or other opportunities since then. Fifty, approximately 20 of them remain in the area believed to be alive in Israel.
Palestinian militants have recently released videos show the weakened hostagesThey say they suffer from the same hunger as the Palestinian population. Hamas is believed to keep hostages in tunnels and other hidden places, and Israel implies that if the forces approached, he would kill them.
Former security officials spoke against more military operations, saying that there were very few things to win after Hamas was destroyed in the military. Israel’s military Chief of General Staff Lieutenant Gen. At a security cabinet meeting of Eyal Zamir, he argued that a more comprehensive plan to get the entire Gaza will endanger hostages and would bring additional burden to the army after two -year regional wars.
International anger
Israel has been on international pressure in recent weeks Images of Hunger Children He shed light on the worsening hunger crisis. Twenty -eight Western aligned nationHe called for the end of the war last month, including some of his closest allies.
Even President Donald Trump, the most powerful supporter he has in the White House Expressed his concerns about the hunger crisis. He said he wanted to end the war and give back all the hostages, and at the same time deciding on his next moves is dependent on Israel.
Israel rejected the criticism by saying that he had done everything in his power to harm civilians and blame Hamas for their death. Netanyahu Rejected that there was hunger in Gaza Despite the eyewitness, the data compiled by experts and terrible warnings from the United Nations officials and great international aid groups operating there.
Netanayahu, Hamas hostages to release and accept to accept more military pressure, he said.
But Hamas has already endured One of the most deadly and destructive ones II. Military campaigns since World War II. The militant group says he will release the remaining hostages only in exchange for a permanent ceasefire and Israel withdrawal.
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