{"id":128124,"date":"2025-08-08T04:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T04:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/128124\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T04:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T04:19:10","slug":"middle-east-crisis-live-israel-security-cabinet-approves-plan-to-take-over-gaza-city-amid-reports-of-disagreements-with-military-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/128124\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle East crisis live: Israel security cabinet approves plan to take over Gaza City amid reports of disagreements with military | Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israeli media reports disagreement between Netanyahu and top military official<\/p>\n

In announcing the approval of plans to take over Gaza City, the office of Benjamin Netanyahu referred to another plan that had been submitted to the Israeli security cabinet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A decisive majority of security cabinet ministers believed that the alternative plan that had been submitted to the security cabinet would neither achieve the defeat of Hamas nor the return of the hostages.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Israeli media reported that this appeared to be referring to a proposal presented by IDF chief of staff, Lt Gen Eyal Zamir<\/strong>, who has reportedly warned that occupying Gaza<\/a> would plunge Israel into a \u201cblack hole\u201d of prolonged insurgency, humanitarian responsibility and heightened risk to hostages.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s thought that the announcement from the security cabinet to take over Gaza City as opposed to the entire territory \u2013 as Netanyahu pledged on Thursday \u2013 could reflect the reservations of Israel\u2019s top military officials.<\/p>\n

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Australian foreign minister Penny Wong has urged Israel<\/a> not to follow through on its plans to occupy Gaza, a step she said could constitute a breach of international law.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After Benjamin Netanyahu<\/strong>\u2019s office said the Israel Defense Forces would prepare to take over Gaza<\/a> City, Wong pushed back on the plan, telling the Guardian:<\/p>\n

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Australia calls on Israel to not go down this path, which will only worsen the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Permanent forced displacement is a violation of international law.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wong said Australia and international partners were maintaining ongoing calls for a ceasefire, the return of hostages and aid to flow unimpeded.<\/p>\n

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A two-state solution is the only pathway to secure an enduring peace \u2013 a Palestinian state and the state of Israel, living side-by-side in peace and security within internationally-recognised borders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Share<\/a>Israeli media reports disagreement between Netanyahu and top military official<\/p>\n

In announcing the approval of plans to take over Gaza City, the office of Benjamin Netanyahu referred to another plan that had been submitted to the Israeli security cabinet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A decisive majority of security cabinet ministers believed that the alternative plan that had been submitted to the security cabinet would neither achieve the defeat of Hamas nor the return of the hostages.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Israeli media reported that this appeared to be referring to a proposal presented by IDF chief of staff, Lt Gen Eyal Zamir<\/strong>, who has reportedly warned that occupying Gaza<\/a> would plunge Israel into a \u201cblack hole\u201d of prolonged insurgency, humanitarian responsibility and heightened risk to hostages.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s thought that the announcement from the security cabinet to take over Gaza City as opposed to the entire territory \u2013 as Netanyahu pledged on Thursday \u2013 could reflect the reservations of Israel\u2019s top military officials.<\/p>\n

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After nearly two years of war in Gaza<\/a>, Benjamin Netanyahu faces mounting pressure at home and abroad for a truce deal to pull the Palestinian territory\u2019s more than two million people back from the brink of famine and to spare hostages held by Palestinian militants.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Outside the prime minister\u2019s office in Jerusalem on Thursday evening, hundreds of demonstrators protested against any expansion of the war, demanding an immediate end to the military campaign in return for the release of all the hostages.<\/p>\n

Protesters call for a ceasefire in Gaza and for Israeli hostages to be released in front of Netanyahu\u2019s office. Photograph: Anadolu\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Protesters held signs bearing the faces of hostages still held in Gaza and voiced deep frustration with the government\u2019s handling of the crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m here because I am sick and tired of this government. It\u2019s ruined our life,\u201d said 55-year-old Noa Starkman, a Jerusalem resident who was born in a southern Israeli community close to where Hamas attacked in October 2023.<\/p>\n

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Indonesia will convert a medical facility on an uninhabited island to treat about 2,000 wounded residents of Gaza<\/a>, according to a spokesperson for the president<\/strong>, reports Kate Lamb<\/a><\/strong> and agencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndonesia will give medical help for about 2,000 Gaza<\/a> residents who became victims of war, those who are wounded, buried under debris,\u201d Hasan Nasbi said in Jakarta on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Indonesia<\/a> plans to allocate the facility on Galang island, home to a former refugee camp for Vietnamese asylum seekers which lies off its island of Sumatra, to treat the wounded Gaza residents and temporarily shelter their families, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

The patients would be taken back to Gaza<\/a> after they had healed, he added, without providing further details on the timing of the plan, or how their return would be guaranteed.<\/p>\n

Demonstrators in West Java, Indonesia, rally in solidarity with Palestinian people last year. Photograph: Mast Irham\/EPA<\/p>\n

Muslim-majority Indonesia has sent humanitarian aid to Gaza during the war and the announcement follows an Axios report<\/a> in July that the director of Israel\u2019s Mossad spy agency had sought US help in convincing several countries \u2013 including Indonesia, Libya and Ethiopia \u2013 to take in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza.<\/p>\n

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The Axios<\/a> reporter Barak Ravid has cited an Israeli official as saying Israel\u2019s occupation of Gaza City is to involve besieging Hamas fighters there while carrying out a ground offensive.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ravid\u2019s post on X<\/a> says:<\/p>\n

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Senior Israeli official tells me: The operation that the IDF is currently preparing for is only in Gaza City. The goal is to evacuate all Palestinian civilians from Gaza City to the central camps and other areas by October 7. A siege will be imposed on the Hamas militants who remain in Gaza City, and at the same time, a ground offensive will be carried out in Gaza City. The Prime Minister and the Defense Minister have been authorized to approve the IDF\u2019s final operational plan<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The Israeli prime minister\u2019s office also said the \u201cvast majority of cabinet ministers believed that the alternative plan presented in the cabinet would not achieve the defeat of Hamas nor the return of the hostages\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Netanyahu\u2019s office said on X<\/a> that the security cabinet voted by a majority to adopt what he called \u201cthe five principles for ending the war\u201d. It listed them as (translated from Hebrew):<\/p>\n

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1. Disarming Hamas of its weapons.<\/p>\n

2. Return of all hostages \u2013 both the living and the deceased.<\/p>\n

3. Demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

4. Israeli security control over the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

5. Establishment of an alternative civilian administration that is neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Updated at\u00a023.03 EDT<\/p>\n

Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office has said on social media that the Israel<\/a> Defense Forces will prepare to take over Gaza City and to provide aid to civilians outside the areas of fighting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The full post on X<\/a> (translated from Hebrew) reads:<\/p>\n

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The Political-Security Cabinet approved the Prime Minister\u2019s proposal for the defeat of Hamas.<\/p>\n

The IDF will prepare to take control of Gaza City while providing humanitarian aid to the civilian population outside the combat zones.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Updated at\u00a022.43 EDT<\/p>\n

Opening summary<\/p>\n

Welcome to our live coverage of the Israel-Gaza war.<\/p>\n

Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office says Israel\u2019s security cabinet has approved a plan to take over Gaza<\/a> City after he earlier said the country intended to take full control of the entire Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

The decision early on Friday marks another escalation of Israel\u2019s offensive in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the security cabinet meeting, which began on Thursday and ran through the night, Netanyahu said Israel planned to retake control over the whole territory and eventually hand it off to friendly Arab forces opposed to Hamas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The announced plans stop short of that, perhaps reflecting the reservations of Israel\u2019s top general, who reportedly warned that it would endanger the remaining 20 or so living hostages held by Hamas and further strain Israel\u2019s army after nearly two years of regional wars, the Associated Press reports.<\/p>\n

Many families of hostages are also opposed, fearing further escalation will doom their loved ones.<\/p>\n

A Hamas official was reported as telling the Al Jazeera Mubasher television network that the militant group would treat any force formed to govern Gaza per Netanyahu\u2019s suggestion as an \u201coccupying\u201d force linked the Israel. And in the first reaction by a main Arab neighbour to Netanyahu\u2019s comments, a Jordanian official told Reuters that Arabs \u201cwill only support what Palestinians agree and decide on\u201d.<\/p>\n

Protesters outside Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office in Jerusalem on Thursday demand the release of the hostages held in Gaza. Photograph: Ronen Zvulun\/Reuters<\/p>\n

In key developments:<\/p>\n