Israel aims to rule the entire Gaza Strip indefinitely, according to officials

This plan, if implemented, would greatly expand Israel's operations in Gaza and would most likely face fierce international opposition.

Israeli cabinet ministers approved the plan in the early hours of the morning, hours after the Israeli army chief said the army was calling tens of thousands of soldiers reserve.

Officials said that with this, Israel aims to achieve the goals of fighting to defeat Hamas the declared US and EU terrorist group and free the hostages held in Gaza.

The plan also envisions hundreds of thousands of Palestinians moving south of Gaza which means they will probably be displaced by force and that the serious humanitarian crisis will only deteriorate, follows Periscope.

One of the officials said the plan would be gradually implemented to enable efforts to achieve a ceasefire and agreement on the release of hostages. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity.

Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 after a few decades of occupation and then imposed a blockade on the territory along with Egypt.

The capture and perhaps conquest of the territory again indefinitely would not only put out more hopes of a Palestinian state, but would put Israel within a deeply hostile population and raise questions about how Israel intends to govern the territory, especially at a time when it is considering the application of American President Donald Trump's vision to take control of Gaza.

Since Israel ended its ceasefire with the militant group Hamas in mid-March, it has carried out fierce attacks on the territory, killing hundreds of people. He has seized large parts of the territory and now controls about 50% of Gaza.

Before the ceasefire ended, Israel banned all humanitarian aid to the territory, including food, fuel, and water, causing what is believed to be the worst humanitarian crisis in nearly 19 months of war.

Relief ban has caused severe hunger, and food shortages have triggered plunder. The war has already displaced more than 90 percent of Gaza's population, at times, and has turned many parts of it into uninhabitable land.

The war began when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages. Israel says 59 hostages remain in Gaza, though it is believed that about 35 of them are dead.

Israel's war has killed more than 52,000 people in Gaza, many of them women and children, according to Palestinian health officials.

Israeli officials said the plan includes “Belt's capture and the maintenance of” territories. The plan also aims not to allow Hamas to distribute humanitarian aid, as Israel says the distribution of international aid from this group strengthens the group's rule in Gaza.

Israel also accuses Hamas of keeping his aid, though he has not testified to it. Aid workers deny that there are considerable deviations of aid to militants, saying the UN strictly oversees the distribution of aid.

Officials said Israel is in contact with several locations for Trump's plan to take control of Gaza and to move its population, according to what Israel calls <x0); voluntary migration”.

This proposal has been widely condemned, including by Israeli allies in Europe, and human rights groups have warned that this could constitute war crime under international law. /REL/