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Israel’s security cabinet is ready to discuss the next steps in a two -year war with the Hamas Terror Group in the Gaza strip on Tuesday, including the possibility of taking full control of the Palestinian Enclave and working military in areas that they have avoided to enter so far, stated by the local media.
Israeli journalist Amit Segal, a commentator of Channel 12, the country’s highest rated news broadcast, quoted a source of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office as saying “The decision has been taken … we are going to capture the Gaza strip.”
Segal quoted the officer as saying, “Hamas will not release the hostages without total surrender, if we do not operate now, the hostage will die of starvation and Gaza will be under Hamas’s control.”
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“Israel was at an intersection for months and, let’s be honest, it was not winning or attaining the hostages. The mandate for a deal was widespread, but we did not get consent, so we would go to capture,” he said.
The report of deepening the military campaign in Gaza falls after the months of the ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas, this week collapsed and despite the assurance of American Middle East messenger Steve Witcoff, who visited Israel over the weekend, that he was working on a plan that would end the war.
It also comes after Hamas, the nominated terrorist group whose massive attack in Israel, on 7 October 2023, provoked the war, shocked the people of Israel with a promotional video of the weak hostages, which included a single one, which was forced to dig their tomb.
Additionally, international pressure on Israel to end the war has increased amid allegations in recent weeks that the aid policy is creating famine in Gaza and after the images of seriously malnourished children-some of these later were proved to be children with medical conditions already existing.
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Pressure in Israel to end the war and return home, to bring back some 50 hostages, both dead and living, who live in Gaza, are also growing, the country’s leadership is divided into the best way to achieve it.
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Some ministers in Netanyahu’s government, such as Finance Minister Bezellel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itmar Ben-Gawir, are emphasizing to re-capture Gaza and rebuild the Jewish settlements that ended 20 years ago.
However, the Israeli army has argued against that plan and according to media reports, is expected to submit some options in Tuesday’s cabinet meeting.
