Israel is preparing to take control of the city of Gaza

The Israeli army was preparing on Friday, under international criticisms, to take control of the city of Gaza, the largest in the Palestinian territory, in order to “defeat” Hamas and ensure the release of hostages.

According to the plan approved by the Israeli security firm, the army Prepares to take control of the city of Gazaan agglomeration partly destroyed in the north of the territory, while distributing humanitarian aid to the civilian population outside the combat zonesannounced the office of Mr. Netanyahu on Friday.

Germany reacted by announcing to suspend the exports of the weapons that Israel could use in Gaza.

What plan must be immediately stoppedsaid the High Commissioner of theHim Human rights, Volker Türk. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer described aserror The Israeli plan and China said seriously worried.

Netanyahu accused of sacrifice hostages

Netanyahu plans […] Confirm without the shadow of a doubt his desire to get rid of the hostages and to sacrifice them in the pursuit of his personal interests and his ideological agenda extremistreacted Hamas on Thursday, which still retains 49 hostages, 27 of which are presumed dead.

Denouncing A blatant turnaround of the negotiation process […]despite the proximity of a final agreementthe Islamist movement ensures that climbing […] will not be a health walk and will have a high and painful cost For Israel.

In Gaza, where the population lives on a daily basis under the bombs, tossed with the evacuation orders issued by the Israeli army, of the inhabitants said feared the worst. They tell us to go to the south, then return to the north, and now they still want to send us to the south. We are human beings, but no one hears or see ussaid Maysa al-Chanti, 52, mother of six children.

In Israel, hostage families, who demonstrate daily to claim the release of their loved ones, are also worried.

What plan means to abandon the hostages, while completely ignoring the repeated warnings of the military leadership and the clear will of the majority of the Israeli publicsaid the Families Forum, the main organization of Israeli hostage relatives.

The broadcast last week by Hamas and the Islamic jihad of propaganda videos showing two very weakened and emaciation hostages aroused anger and emotion.

The head of the opposition, Yaïr Lapid, castigated a catastrophe that will bring The death of the hostages, that of many soldiers, cost tens of billions to Israeli taxpayers and [provoquer] Diplomatic bankruptcy.

Take control, without govern

Thursday, Mr. Netanyahu had announced that Israel had l’intention to take control of the Gaza Strip, in the hands of Hamas since 2007, without however governing it or the keep.

He said he wanted then Pass the relay to Arab forces that will govern there […] correctlysans threaten Israel and By offering a pleasant life to the inhabitants.

Currently, the Israeli army occupies or operates on the ground in nearly 75 % of the Gaza Strip, mainly since its permanent positions in the territory along the border.

Israel had already occupied Gaza in 1967 and established a set of 21 colonies, dismantled during its unilateral withdrawal in 2005.

According to the official press release, the security firm has adopted Five principles to conclude war: the disarmament of Hamas; the return of all hostages, alive and dead; the demilitarization of the Gaza strip; Israeli security control in the Gaza Strip; the establishment of an alternative civil administration which is neither Hamas nor the Palestinian authority.

A controversial plan

In Israel, the press has announced for several days an operation of several months targeting To conquer the entire Gaza Strip.

She also echoed the reserves, even the opposition of the chief of staff, the lieutenant-general Eyal Zamir.

According to Kan public radio, a the vast majority of ministers of the security firm considered that the alternative plan presented by the army would not reach the objective of defeating Hamas and freeing the hostages.

The approved plan is structured in several stages, and some ministers have even found that it was too long: first to conquer the city of Gaza, whose inhabitants will be evacuated in the next two months towards the refugee camps located in the center of the Gaza Strip and other places. Then the troops will surround the city and operate insidedetails the radio.

For daily life Israel Hayomthis plan, at a time when the negotiations led by the mediating countries are at a standstill, serves de facto from ultimatum to Hamas: Accept the agreement on the table or let Israel conquer the entire Gaza strip.

“Generalized famine”

After 22 months of a devastating war, launched on October 7, 2023 by the bloody Hamas attack on Israeli soil from Gaza, the small Palestinian territory is threatened with a widespreadaccording to theHimand depends completely on humanitarian aid, distributed in largely insufficient quantities according to humanitarian workers.

Amjad al-Chawa, director of the network of ONG Palestinian in Gaza, explained on Friday that inspection procedures at the entry points slowed down the transport of aid.

Between 70 and 80 trucks per day, transporting only certain types of goodshe said that theHim estimates the needs at least 600 trucks per day.

Some 2.4 million Palestinians live on a daily basis under the bombs in this territory which runs along the Mediterranean. Israeli reprisals have already left 61,258 dead there, mainly civilians, according to data from the Ministry of Health of Hamas, deemed reliable by theHim.

On the Israeli side, the attack on Hamas resulted in the death of 1219 people, mostly civilians, according to a count of theAFP Made from official data.