Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering a request to reshape the complete Gaza Strip, according to the Israeli media, a step that will attract intense opposition at the international level and inside Israel.
It would be an amazing escalation of a war of nearly 22 months in the region that has already been largely destroyed and where experts say the famine is revealed. It would expose the life of countless Palestinians and about 20 hostages to live in danger, and to deepen international isolation in Israel already.
A fierce opposition inside Israel will also face: the hostages of the hostages will consider the virtual death penalty, and many security establishment oppose an open occupation that would disturb the army and increase stress after nearly two years of regional wars.
The threat of re -longing of Gaza could be a negotiating tactic aimed at pressuring Hamas after the US talks, and it appears that Egypt and Qatar had collapsed last month. Or it can aim to increase support from the far -right coalition partners in Netanyahu.
Israeli right -wing activists during a gathering calling for the re -establishment of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, near the border in southern Israel, on Wednesday, July 30, 2025.
AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg
His allies have long called on the rulers to escalate the war, acquired Gaza, and transferred many of its residents through what they refer to as voluntary migration and the re -establishment of the Jewish settlements that were dismantled when Israel withdrew in 2005.
Whether they would likely depend on the only person who carries a crane on Israel – US President Donald Trump. He was asked on Tuesday if he believed that Israel should re -occupy Gaza, he said that he was not aware of the “proposal”, but “it would be left to Israel.”
Earth operations in the most intense population areas
To completely control Gaza, Israel will need to launch ground operations in the last regions of the region that have not been settled and as most Palestinians in Gaza have resorted to a million.
This means going to the city of Deir al -Allah and the central Massasi, a humanitarian area called hundreds of thousands of people in a bomber tent camps along the coast. Such operations would force another wave of mass displacement and disrupt more delivery operations with United Nations agencies and humanitarian organizations are already struggling to avoid starvation.
Israel has already controls about 75 % of the lands, which have been declared a buffer zone or placed under evacuation orders. With Israel, he also largely concluded the Gaza border, it is unclear where civilians will go.
It will also pose a great danger to the remaining 20 of the living hostages or so, probably in tunnels or other secret sites. It is believed that Hamas ordered its guards to kill the prisoners if the Israeli forces approach.
The militants led by Hamas kidnapped 251 hostages on October 7, 2023, an attack that ignited the war and killed about 1,200 people that day, most of them civilians. They still carry 50 hostages, less than half of them believed to be alive, and recent videos showed meager prisoners watching their lives.
The retaliation of Israel has killed more than 61,000 Palestinians, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, which does not say the number of civilians or fighters. The ministry, which is part of the Hamas government run by medical professionals by the United Nations and other experts as a more reliable source of losses. Israel is bleeding its losses, but it did not provide it.
International anger and more isolation
Israel’s behavior in wartime shocked many international community, and even the close Western allies pushed a call to war and take steps to get to know the Palestinian state.
The International Court of Justice is considering allegations of genocide, and the International Criminal Court issued arrest orders for Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense, with war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the use of hunger as a means of war.
Israel rejected the allegations and accused those who made them as anti -Semitic “blood defamation”. She says that it took every effort to avoid hurting civilians and blameing Hamas for their death because the militants are deeply firmly firmly in the densely populated areas.
Israel said that it will continue to fight until all the hostages are returned, Hamas is defeated or disarmed, and the Gaza population is given the option of “voluntary migration”, which the Palestinians and many of the international community view for forced expulsion.
Hamas said it would only launch the remaining hostages for a permanent ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal. She says she is ready to abandon power, but she will not set its arms as long as Israel occupies the lands that the Palestinians want for a future country.
Another open profession
Israel seized Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the Middle East war in 1967. The United Nations, the Palestinians and others continued to look at Gaza as occupied lands after the withdrawal of Israeli forces and settlers in 2005, as Israel maintained the airspace, the coast, and most of its wild borders and its population record.
The entire re -occupation of Gaza would constitute long -term challenges that Israel realizes well in view of its long history in occupying Arab lands, including the possibility of a long rebellion. It seems that the Israeli support for the war has already decreased since Netanyahu has finished the ceasefire in March, where the soldiers were killed in attacks.
As an occupying power, Israel is expected to maintain the regime and ensure the basic needs of the population. In the West Bank, it used to a large extent of external sources of the Palestinian Authority, which exerts limited independence in the population centers.
But in Gaza, Netanyahu excluded any future role of the Palestinian Authority, accusing not to adhere to peace, and did not produce any plan for governance and reconstruction in Gaza in Gaza.
Long -term repercussions
Even if Israel succeeds in suppressing Hamas, the reshaping of Gaza could pose a deeper threat to the country.
Israel will leave full control of the region between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, which includes about 7 million Jews and 7 million Palestinians – most of them deny basic rights, including vote. Even before the war, the major human rights groups said the situation is the apartheid, which is something that Israel is strongly denied.
Unless large numbers of Palestinians are expelled-it is not just the imagination of the right of Israel-Israel will face a very familiar existential dilemma: the establishment of a Palestinian state in the regions of 1967 and Israel maintains equal idea of equality.
Israel is no longer able to refer to the rule of Hamas in Gaza, or the quarterly divisions between the Palestinians, as reasons to avoid such a account. And when Trump leaves his post, he may find that there are few friends to support him.
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