{"id":321807,"date":"2025-08-06T06:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/321807\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T06:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:25:09","slug":"israel-expanding-gaza-operations-would-risk-catastrophic-consequences-un-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/321807\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel expanding Gaza operations would risk &#8216;catastrophic consequences&#8217;, UN official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fears move could put lives of Palestinians and hostages at riskpublished at 07:07 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>07:07 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/23231686-4007-4d0d-a14c-993b755541a9.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Yolande Knell<\/strong><br \/>Middle East correspondent, in Jerusalem<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Tuesday, Netanyahu held a security meeting at which he\u2019s reported to have come out in favour of the Israeli military taking full control of the Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Such a move still needs the approval of the security cabinet, which is due to meet tomorrow.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">US President Donald Trump has indicated that he won\u2019t interfere with Israeli plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pressed by reporters on whether he\u2019d support an Israeli plan to reoccupy all of Gaza, President Trump responded: &#8220;That\u2019s pretty much going to be up to Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are fears that a new escalation of the war in Gaza \u2013 where experts say that famine is unfolding \u2013 would put the lives of more Palestinians, and about 20 living Israeli hostages, at risk.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It\u2019s been suggested that the plan could be a negotiating tactic to pressure Hamas after a recent breakdown of ceasefire talks \u2013 or an attempt to shore up support from Netanyahu\u2019s far-right coalition partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fears move could put lives of Palestinians and hostages at riskpublished at 07:07 British Summer Time 07:07 BST&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-321807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114980397039336674","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}