Israel’s Defense Minister threatens to “seize additional territories” in Gaza

Israel’s Defense Minister ordered the military to “seize additional areas in Gaza” if Hamas did not release all other hostages.

Israel Katz said on Friday that the military will continue their main operation in gas “with an increase in intensity”, while all hostages “both alive and dead are not returned.

This is another escalation in the conflict that reigns this week when Israel has violated the ceasefire, on the spot since January to resume its bombing. Hundreds of people were killed in the subsequent violence.

“The more Hamas continues his refusal, the more territory he will lose to Israel,” Katz said.

In his statement on Friday, Katz said Israel still agreed to a proposal brought by US envoy Steve Vikoff to “release everyone abducted as they live and the dead, in advance, and in two stages with termination of fire between.”

“We will strengthen the fighting with blows from the air, the sea and the land and by expanding the maneuver on the ground until the hostages are released and Hamas is not defeated,” Katz wrote.

The Minister of Defense also said that Israel will “implement the voluntary plan for the President of the United States for Gaza residents.”

Trump said he wants the United States to take over and restore the Gaza Strip, while constantly removing its population from two million Palestinians.

Palestinian power and Hamas said the “does not sell” tape, while the UN warned that any forced displacement of civilians from occupied territory was strictly prohibited under international law and “equivalent to ethnic cleansing”.

Months of negotiations led by the United States, Qatar and Egypt saw a deal to end the fire proposed in three stages. Israel and Hamas failed to agree on how to take the truce beyond the first phase.

The cessation of fire was interrupted on Tuesday when Israel starts a heavy wave of air strikes On the Gaza Strip, killing more than 430 people in two days, the Hamas Health Ministry said. Thursday, Hamas released three rockets in Tel AvivS

Accusing Hamas of resumption of violence, Israeli Government spokesman David Menzer said the group had “rejected any hostage deal.”

The plan stopped when the United States and Israel suggested that stage one be extended. Hamas rejected the change and said it was a “screaming experience” by Israel to avoid the agreement.

Israel says Hamas still holds 59 hostages, 24 of which are thought to be still alive.

Hamas denied that he was responsible for stopping the negotiations and stated that he “remains deeply included” and was “engaged in intermediaries with full responsibility and seriousness”.

In a statement by Telegram, Hamas wrote that he was discussing “Vitcof’s proposal and other various ideas set out, all in order to secure a prison transaction, which guarantees the release of prisoners, terminated the war and reached withdrawal” (the Israeli Troops from the Gaza Strip).

In his statement, Katz also said that civilians would be evacuated from the areas to which the IDF is directed.

Previous evacuation orders have sent panic through families to the Palestinians, many of whom have been displaced many times from the war and have remained a little safe options.

The Israeli military launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 were taken hostage.

Since then, more than 48,500 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in Gaza since then, the health ministry, run by Hamas, and there are large -scale destruction in homes and infrastructure in the tape.