The Israeli security government approves Netanyahu’s proposal to occupy Gaza

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced, early today, that “(cabinet) agreed to the Prime Minister’s proposal to control Gaza City.”

In a statement, the Netanyahu office said that under this plan, the Israeli army “is preparing to control Gaza City, with humanitarian aid distribution to civilian population outside the fighting areas.”

The statement added that “the security cabinet approved, in a majority vote, 5 principles to end the war: the disarmament of (Hamas), the return of all prisoners – neighborhoods and dead, the disarmament of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli security control over the Gaza Strip, and the establishment of an alternative civil administration that does not belong to (Hamas) or the Palestinian Authority.” The statement emphasized that “a overwhelming majority of the government ministers considered that the alternative plan” that was presented to the “cabinet” to consider it “will not defeat (Hamas), and will not return the prisoners”, without further details.

The decision constitutes another escalation of the 22 -month Israeli attack, which began after Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

The families of the protesting hostages in Gaza fear that the escalation will lead to the death of their loved ones, and some protested outside the security cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. Selected Israeli security officials also opposed the plan, warning of a few additional benefit.

The Israeli army is currently occupying or carrying out ground operations in about 75 percent of Gaza’s area, and leads most of its operations from fixed points in the Strip, or from its locations along the border.

The army carries out a continuous air and artillery shelling throughout the sector on a daily basis.

The war caused a tremendous destruction throughout the sector, and has prompted its population of approximately 2.4 million people, to the displacement at least once, according to the United Nations, which recently warned, as well as many humanitarian organizations, of the danger of starvation in the Strip, and the Hebrew state occupied the Gaza Strip in 1967, and withdrew from it in 2005 in a single way, and disintegrated 21 settlements that had been established on Its land.