Israeli Cabinet Considers Complete Gaza Takeover

Tel Aviv/Cairo, August 5 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supports the seizure of a full military seizure of Gaza and reported the media and will meet with senior security guards on Tuesday to complete a new strategy in the 22 -month war.

The mediation between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas collapsed despite the intense international pressure for the ceasefire to alleviate hunger and terrible conditions in the besieged Palestinian settlement.

The Gaza Ministry of Health said in the last 24 hours, eight people died of starvation or malnutrition, dedi he said.

In a statement to an Israeli official Reuters, Netanyahu Defense Minister Israel Katz and military Chief of General Staff Eyal Zir would later decide the strategy to take the cabinet this week. Ron Dermer, the Minister of Strategic Works, the confidant of Netanyahu, would also be ready.

By referring to an official from the Netanyahu office of Israel, the 12th channel said that the Prime Minister turned to seize the control of the entire region. In 2005, this would revers the decision to remove the settlers and the army from Gaza, while the right -wing parties accused Hamas to gain strength there.

However, it was unclear whether Netanyahu predicted a short -term operation aimed at dismantling a long profession or Hamas and releasing Israeli hostages. Prime Minister’s Office refused to comment on the channel 12 report.

Netanyahu told the new soldiers at his military base, “It is necessary to complete the defeat of the enemy in Gaza, to release our hostages and to ensure that Gaza never pose a threat to Israel again.” “We do not give up any of these tasks.”

On Saturday, Hamas released a video of Evyatar David, one of the 50 hostages in Gaza, and weakened in what looks like an underground tunnel. The images shocked the Israelis and led to international condemnation.

During the war, there is international pressure to release the rest of the hostages, which Hamas’s Israeli officials estimate that 20 is still alive. Most hostage were published during fever following diplomatic negotiations. Israel broke the last ceasefire.

A Palestinian official said that the threat of full capture of Gaza could be a tactic to put Hamas a tactic to press concessions, while the Palestinian Foreign Ministry called on foreign countries to pay attention to reports.

“The ministry calls for the maximum seriousness of these leaks of countries and international community, and urgently intervene in order to apply pressure, test international reactions or to implement it or not,” he said.

The coalition government of Israel, the most right and religious conservative in its history, includes extreme right politicians who defend the annexation of both Gaza and the West Bank and encourage Palestinians to abandon their homeland.

In Gaza, about two years of fight forced the army, which had a small army and had to mobilize the reserves over and over again. During the war, he returned to the idea that Israel had completely occupied Gaza.

Some Israeli ruling coalition and military, far -right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir differences between the Gvir, the military president on the X, even if it was decided to take the entire Gaza, even if it would comply with government directives, he said.

Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said that the military chief should give his professional opinion, and Defense Minister Katz would implement any policy of the government professionally.

The war was triggered when the militants led by Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and caught 251 hostages and took them to Gaza.

According to Palestinian health officials, Israel’s military reaction was small, mostly killed by civilians – by ruining the crowded settlement.

Israel’s campaign forced almost more than 2 million people from Gaza’s homes, and a global hunger monitor caused what happened last week as a famine.

According to Gaza officials, 188 Palestinians have died of hunger since the war began.

A Israeli security official admitted to journalists in a briefing that some parts of Gaza could be hunger, but rejected famine or hunger reports.

On Tuesday, the Israeli tanks pushed the Middle Gaza, but it was not clear whether the movement was part of a larger ground attack.

He said that any new push would be a disaster by Palestinians – living in the last quarter of the region where Israel has not yet received military control.

A Gaza wooden trader Abu Jehad said, “Wherever I go, we would go into the sea? This will be like a death penalty for the whole population.”

(Reporting by Lubell in Jerusalem, writing by Alexander Cornwell in Tel Aviv and Nidal al-Might in Cairo; Angus McDowall and Andrew Cawthorne;