Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday that the Israeli forces will remain in the security areas that were established in Gaza even after any agreement to end the war.
Since the resumption of military operations last month, the Israeli forces have established a large security area that extends to the internal part of Gaza Pay more than 2 million From the Palestinians to the smaller areas ever in the south and along the coast.
“On the contrary, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) does not evacuate the cleaning and taken areas,” Katz said in a statement after a meeting with military leaders.
“The Israeli Defense Army will remain in the security areas as a barrier between the enemy and societies in any temporary or permanent situation in Gaza – such as Lebanon and Syria.”
In a summary of its operations last month, the Israeli army said that now 30 % control Palestinian territories.
In southern Gaza, the Israeli forces were taken Rafah city They advanced to the “Morge Corridor”, from the far east of Gaza to the Mediterranean, between Rafah and the city of Khan Yais.
The region has already maintained a large corridor across the Central region of Netzarim and extending a border protection area with hundreds of meters to the interior, including the Shejaia area, east of Gaza City, in the north.
Israel stipulates that its forces have killed hundreds of fighters from Hamas, including many leaders in the Palestinian armed group, since March 18, but the operation has sparked anxiety of the United Nations and European countries.
More than 400,000 Palestinians have been displaced since hostilities were restarted on March 18, two months after “calm”, according to UNCA Humanitarian Agency, and Israeli air attacks killed at least 1630 people.
The Humanitarian Organization, MSF, said Gaza has become a “common trench” with humanitarian groups struggling to provide assistance.
“We are witnessing in real time the destruction of all the forced population in Gaza” in real time, “said the emergency coordinator at the MSF in Gaza in a statement.
Katz said that Israel Delivery of the prohibited offer From the emergency to the region since the beginning of March, the creation of an infrastructure to allow distribution through civil companies, but the bloc will remain in effect.
He said that Israel will ask for a plan to allow the Gaza population to leave the pocket, although it is still unclear, which countries will be ready to accept a large number of Palestinians.
Red lines
Katsz’s comments, and the repetition of Israel’s requirements to Hamas to disarm, to the extent to which the parties remain from the ceasefire agreement, despite the efforts of Egyptian brokers to resume initiatives for an agreement.
Hamas has repeatedly described disarmament calls as a red line that will not express and mention that the Israeli forces should withdraw from Gaza under any permanent ceasefire.
“Any truce without real guarantees to boycott war, reach a total withdrawal, suspend the blockade and start reconstruction will be a political trap,” Hamas said in a statement on Wednesday.
Two of the Israeli authorities said this week that there was no progress in the negotiations, despite the media reports of a possible truce to allow some to exchange some 59 hostages are still reserved In Gaza by Palestinian prisoners.
The Israeli authorities said that increasing military pressure will force Hamas to release the hostages, but the government faced great appearances from the Israeli calling for an agreement to boycott and restore the fighting.
Israel launched its war in Gaza in response to the Hamas attack in southern Israel in October 2023, which killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli data.
The attack was killed at least 51,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, and the coastal pocket was destroyed, forcing most of the population to move several times and reduce large spaces to the rubble.
On Wednesday, the Palestinian medical authorities stated that Israeli military attacks throughout the Gaza Group killed at least 35 Palestinians. An air strike was killed 10 people, including Fatima Hasuna, a well -known writer and photographer who trusted the war.
The doctors said another air strike to a camp in Khan Yais, south of the pocket, killed at least 10 other people. Others were killed in separate military attacks in other areas.
The Hamas -run Gaza Ministry of Health said that the Israeli commentary to enter fuel, medical supplies and food began to hinder the work of the few Operating hospitalsWith medical supplies, it is running out.
The ministry said: “Hundreds of patients and wounds are deprived of basic drugs, and their suffering is getting worse due to the closure of border tickets.”
