Israel’s security cabinet approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan for a military incursion and is preparing to take over Gaza City.
‘The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) will prepare for the takeover of Gaza City while ensuring the provision of humanitarian aid to the civilian population outside the combat zones,’ the prime minister’s office said.
The office added that the proposal was to ‘defeat Hamas’ and humanitarian aid would be provided to the civilian population outside combat zones, Axios first reported.
Netanyahu’s office told the Times of Israel that the majority of cabinet members supported five principles, including the disarmament of Hamas, the return of all 50 remaining hostages, the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip, Israeli Security control over the Gaza Strip, and an alternative civilian government that isn’t Hamas or the Palestinian Authority.
When Netanyahu was previously asked if the IDF planned on taking control of the entirety of the Gaza Strip in a Fox News interview, he responded, ‘We intend to.’
‘We don’t want to keep it. We want to have a security perimeter. We don’t want to govern it. We don’t want to be there as a governing body.’
‘We want to hand it over to Arab forces that will govern it properly, without threatening us, and [to give] Gazans a good life,’ the prime minister added.
Netanyahu said that the goal of an enhanced military occupation is to ‘liberate ourselves and the people of Gaza from the awful terror of Hamas’.
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Israel’s security cabinet approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s (pictured) plan for a military incursion and is preparing to take over Gaza City
