The strident critics of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Gaza escalation who’ll actually have to carry it out

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with Fox News on Thursday that Israel aims to seize the whole Gaza’s control.

However, on Friday morning, his office stopped saying that Israel would conquer the entire region, and that the army would be preparing to take over the Gaza City. Different expressions left the government’s ultimate intentions uncertain.

Netanyahu, in his fox interview, said that a inheritance would “guarantee our safety ,, will remove Hamas from power and that Gaza’s civilian administration has been transferred to another party. However, Israel claimed that he was not interested in maintaining permanent control over Gaza.

Some analysts may have been trying to use the threat of a new Israeli operation in the midst of stopped ceasefire negotiations as a way to make concessions from Hamas, who attacked the deadly Israel on October 7, 2023.

Shamni said that another pressure on Gaza City would not bring a fundamental change in Hamas’s power in Gaza or in the cease -fire negotiations.

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And if Israel plans to take over the city before the potential long -term Gaza occupation, the army said it would take years to establish a functioning military government and reduce Hamas enough to stabilize the situation.

“The State of Israel does not even have resources for such a thing,” he said. “Where will Israel get all the money for this?”

Since the beginning of the war, Israeli troops raided Gaza several times. However, each time Hamas managed to re -group in the neighborhoods where Israeli troops carried out operations.

During the attack of Hamas in October 2023, approximately 250 people were hostage to Gaza. According to an investigation, more than three dozens of pledge were killed while under captivity. New York Times. According to Israeli officials, the hostage of up to 20 is still believed to be in the region.

The American and Israeli officials have accepted the conditions for terminating the war, including Hamas’s release of hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and the disarmament of the group.

Despite objections from the long -standing European Allies on Friday, Israel has not given any support for realizing a new Gaza operation.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, “Israeli government’s attack in Gaza further increased the decision to rethink wrong and immediately,” he said. And Germany said that until the next announcement, it would stop export of military equipment that could be used in Gaza until the next announcement.

The United Nations Security Council planned a meeting on Saturday to discuss the situation in the Middle East.

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It will take days for the Israeli army to collect reserve forces, make unity deployment, and take time for the forced evacuation of Palestinians gathered in apartments, tents and temporary shelters.

He said that the government’s decision to raise the war for the Israeli army was particularly interested in the hostages because he could risk the life of hostages.

Shamni, “until today, there was a debate whether military pressure will bring back or not,” he said. “Now it is clear that military pressure is not only bringing back the hostages, but that they will kill them.”