Netanyahu to offer a complete re -occupation of gas, Israeli media report

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must suggest fully deal with the Gaza tape when he meets his security office, Israeli media say.

“Dig is thrown. We are going for the full conquest of the Gaza tape – and we are defeating Hamas,” local journalists say, quote a senior employee.

In response to the reports that the army chief and other military leaders are opposed to the plan, the unnamed employee said: “If this does not work for the head of the headquarters, he must resign.”

The hostage families fear that such plans could threaten their loved ones, with 20 of 50 being believed to be alive in gas, while polls suggest that three of the four Israelis instead prefer a deal to stop fire to return them.

Many of Israel’s close allies would also condemn such a move, as they demand that the war and the actions to relieve a humanitarian crisis.

Within Israel, hundreds of retired Israeli security officers, including former intelligence agencies, Issued a joint letter to US President Donald Trump on Mondaycalling for him to put pressure on Netanyahu to end the war.

One of the signators, a former chief of the Domans Intelligence Agency, Ayanon, told the BBC that further hostilities would be useless.

“From the military point of view (Hamas) is completely destroyed. On the other hand, as an ideology, it is gaining more and more power among the Palestinian people, in the Arab street around us, as well as in the world of Islam.

“So the only way to defeat Hamas’s ideology is to present a better future.”

Recent developments come after the indirect conversations with Hamas in the end of the fire and the hostage deal have fallen apart, and the Palestinian armed groups have released three videos of two Israeli hostages, looking weak and enchanted.

The footage of Roma Blaslavski and Evaatar David, both abducted by the Music Festival in Nova on October 7, 2023, shocked and terrified of the Israelis. David is shown to dig what he says is his own grave in an underground tunnel.

There are some speculation that the most media reports are pressure tactics to try to force Hamas in a new deal.

Israeli military says there is already an operational control of 75% of gas. But according to the proposed plan, it will occupy the entire territory – moving to areas where more than two million Palestinians are now concentrated.

It is not clear what this would mean to civilians and UN operations and other help groups. About 90% of 2.1 million Gaza people have been displaced, some of them repeatedly and live in overcrowded and harsh conditions. UN humanitarian groups and employees claim that many are starving, accusing Israel of preventing the distribution of decisive assistance.

In the meantime, Israel says it will allow local businessmen in Gaza to restart the entry of some goods as part of the efforts to improve the conditions there. Approved items include baby food, fruits and vegetables and hygiene products. Private imports were previously stopped because Hamas was taking advantage.

The Israeli military had previously been restrained by the capture of some Gaza regions, including central parts, due to suggestion that living hostages were being held there. Last year, six Israeli hostages were executed by their abductors after the ground forces moved.

There was no official answer, but Palestinian power officials, which rules parts of the occupied West Bank, condemned Israel’s proposal, calling on the international community to intervene to prevent any new military occupation.

The Palestinians point out that the extreme Israeli ministers openly advocate for the complete occupation and annexation of gas and ultimately want to build new Jewish settlements there.

In 2005, Israel dismantled the settlements in the Gaza Strip and withdrew its forces from there.

But along with Egypt, it maintains strict control over access to the territory.

The new idea of occupation comes against the backdrop of increasing international moves to revive the bilateral solution-the long-term international formula for resolving decades of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He envisages an independent Palestinian state, which is created with Israel on the West coast and the Gaza Strip with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Last week, the United Kingdom and Canada joined France in the announcement of conditional plans to recognize a Palestinian state.

The Israeli Prime Minister is now expected to meet key ministers and military leaders to decide the next steps in Gaza. Israeli army radio says they should discuss the army’s original plans to bypass central refugee camps and make air strikes and outstanding attacks.

Netanyahu said that this week he would convene a full meeting of the security cabinet.

Israeli media commentators expressed skepticism and have drawn attention to practical military, political and diplomatic challenges. Writing in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, Nahum Barnea says, “Netanyahu has never taken a gambling on this scale.”

He notes that Israel’s Prime Minister has repeated his vow to achieve all his goals of the war.

“But after 22 months of bloody battles, it is difficult to take these promises seriously. It seems that Netanyahu has only one goal in the Gaza war to extend the war.”

Israel launched its military offensive in Gaza in response to Hamas’s attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 others taken in Gaza as hostages.

At least 61 020 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since then, says Hamas Health Ministry.