Location at an overview: Netanyahu: War plan also includes central refugee camps

According to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s new war plan also shows in addition to taking the city of Gaza in the central refugee camps of the Gaza Strip. The Security Cabinet instructed the military last week to “smash the two remaining Hamas strongholds in the city of Gaza and in the central camps,” said Netanyahu to foreign journalists. In a message from his office, the only question was that the military would prepare for taking the city of Gaza.

“Our goal is not to fill Gaza. Our goal is to free Gaza-from the Hamas terrorists,” said Netanyahu. “In view of the refusal of Hamas to put down her weapons, Israel remains no other than to finish the job and to complete the defeat of Hamas”. Around 70 to 75 percent of the Gaza Strip would be under Israel’s military control. “But two strongholds remain” – the city of Gaza and the refugee camp in the center of the coastal area. This is “the best way to end the war – and the best way to end it quickly,” added the prime minister.

Netanyahu and Trump talk about war plan

In these areas, the last 50 hostages in the hands of Hamas are also suspected. According to Israeli assessment, 20 of them are said to be alive. Netanyahu spoke to US President Donald Trump about “Israel’s plans to control the remaining Hamas strongholds in the Gaza Strip to end the war, to leave the hostages and to defeat Hamas,” as the Prime Minister’s office then announced. Netanyahu has thanked Trump for his “steadfast support of Israel since the beginning of the war”.

The civilian population would initially be able to leave the combat areas and go into “safe zones”, Netanyahu previously said foreign journalists. There they would receive sufficient food, water and medical care. He did not do any information on how to take the central camps after taking the city of Gaza. Native media said Netanyahu that he wanted to end the war “as soon as possible”. “That is why I have instructed the Israeli forces to shorten the schedule for taking the city of Gaza.” It did not become more specific.

No information about the schedule

The city of Gaza is the largest population center in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Around one million Palestinians are crowded there – around half of the total population. The rest lives in the al-Mawasi tent camp in the southwest and in refugee districts in the middle Gaza Strip. According to the media, the army should take two months to prepare for the operation. You would have to convene hundreds of thousands of reservists. Many of them are exhausted after a good two years of war. The army would also have to repair or replace worn war equipment.

The General Staff will cheapen the “basic ideas” for use against the city of Gaza by the end of the week, the Israeli news portal “Ynet” reported. According to media reports, army chief Ejal Zamir is skeptical about the project. Critics of the planned expansion of military operation, among them most of the hostages, fear that the lives of kidnapped people would endanger. “What Netanyahu has served us today means that hostages and soldiers will die that the economy will collapse and that our international reputation will be ruined,” wrote the Israeli opposition leader Jair Lapid on the X.

Violent criticism of Israel in the UN Security Council

At a special meeting of the UN Security Council, there was violent criticism of Israel. Several European states condemned the plans to expand the war. “We urgently ask Israel not to rethink this decision and not to implement,” said Slovenian UN ambassador Samuel Zbogar before the start of the session. Israel rejected the criticism.

In Israel, Netanyahu referred to the principles of war on the foreign journalists to be completed by the security cabinet: the disarmament of the Hamas, the release of all hostages, the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip, the military control of the coastal area by Israel and the establishment of an Israel to peacefully grown civil government without the participation of Hamas or the Hamas Palestinian Authority (PA).

Palestine also wants to recognize Australia as a state

Meanwhile, according to France and Canada, Australia also announced that they recognize Palestine as a state. “A two -state solution is the best hope of humanity to break through the cycle of violence in the Middle East and to end the conflict, suffering and hunger in Gaza,” said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at noon (local time).

The decision is part of “a coordinated global effort” to advance a two -state solution, said Albanese. This means that Israel and an independent Palestinian state exist peacefully by side. Netanyahu recently described the foreseeable announcement by Australia and other countries as “shameful”. The majority of the Jewish public is against a Palestinian state because people knew “that he will not bring peace. He will bring war”.

Al-Jasira: Correspondent killed in Gaza

Meanwhile, the Arab TV broadcaster Al-Jasira reported, in an Israeli air raid on a tent for journalists in the city of Gaza, the correspondent of the broadcaster, Anas al-Sharif, and four colleagues were killed. Israel’s military confirmed the death of Anas al-Sharif. He had pretended to be an al-Jasira journalist, but led a Hamas terrorist cell.

The broadcaster said that Israel had not submitted any documents verified by independent international bodies that would prove this claim. On the other hand, Israel’s army referred to information information and documents found in the Gaza Strip that showed this.

Foreign journalists have largely banned access to the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war. Local reporters report on site. There are always reports on journalists killed in Israeli attacks.