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2025-05-06 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Netanyahu: IDF will hold captured areas in Gaza until Hamas defeated, hostages freed
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[IsraelTimes] PM says military will no longer withdraw from seized territory; IDF spokesman says new ‘wide-scale attack’ will move ‘majority’ of Gazan population to areas ‘sterile of Hamas’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that the military will stay stationed in whatever areas of the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip are captured until all the goals of the war are reached, a day after the cabinet voted to intensify combat operations against the Hamas
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terror group.
In a video posted on his personal X account, Netanyahu said that "last night we sat late into the night in the cabinet and decided on an intensified operation in Gaza."
"This was the recommendation of [IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir] — to move, as he put it, toward the defeat of Hamas," he continued.
"He believes this will also help us rescue the hostages along the way. I agree with him. We are not letting up on this effort, and we will not give up on a single one. That is what we are doing," he said.
"We won’t talk about the details because we’ve already spoken in detail about both of these matters: what we’re doing for the hostages, and what we’re doing for the defeat [of Hamas]," Netanyahu added.
"One thing will be clear — we’re not going in and out [of Gaza] just to call up reserves so they’ll come and seize territory, we withdraw from territory, and carry out raids on what remains... That’s not the intention. What’s our intention? The opposite," he concluded.
IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said Monday evening that the goal of the "new and intensified phase" of the war, dubbed Operation Gideon’s Chariots, "is the return of our hostages and the defeat of Hamas’s rule."
"These two goals are combined with each other," he said, adding that the offensive "will include a wide-scale attack and the movement of the majority of the Strip’s population — this is to protect them in an area sterile of Hamas. And continued Arclight airstrike
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s, elimination of terrorists, and dismantling of infrastructure."
Defrin said the IDF will implement the "Rafah model," whereby all Hamas infrastructure is razed and the area is declared part of Israel’s buffer zone, in other parts of the Strip.
An Israeli official said earlier Monday that the new plan provided for the "conquering of Gaza," retaining the territory, moving of the Paleostinian civilian population toward the south of the Strip, attacking Hamas, and preventing the terror group from taking control of humanitarian aid supplies.
According to the official, "a central component of the plan is the extensive evacuation of the entire Gazook population from combat zones, including from northern Gaza, to areas in southern Gaza, while creating separation between them and Hamas terrorists, to allow the IDF operational freedom of action."
Netanyahu’s video, along with the statements from the IDF front man and the official, affirmed what many government figures have said since the cabinet’s decision was announced Sunday night, namely that the IDF will no longer withdraw from captured areas as it has done during much of the first year and a half of the war against Hamas in Gaza.
Some government figures even went a step further than the prime minister, saying that Israel’s goal is to "occupy" the Strip, a word Netanyahu did not use in his statement.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 414.
More than 52,500 Paleostinians have been killed since the war began, according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry. The figures cannot be independently verified, and do not distinguish between combatants and civilians. Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January, and another 1,600 holy warriors inside Israel during the Hamas onslaught.
Official: IDF to launch major Gaza op if no deal signed by end of Trump’s Mideast visit
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces will launch a major offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip if no hostage deal is reached with the terror group by the end of US President Donald Trump’s visit to the region next week, a senior Israeli defense official said Monday.
The warning came after the security cabinet on Sunday night approved a plan to significantly broaden the military offensive against Hamas, and as the IDF was calling up tens of thousands of reservists.
Trump is set to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates between May 13 and May 16, the White House has said.
The official added that plans to allow Gazans to voluntarily emigrate abroad, “especially those concentrated in the south outside of Hamas control,” were also part of the offensive’s objectives.
The overhaul to the aid delivery system, approved by the cabinet late Sunday and first reported by The Times of Israel on Friday, would entail the IDF transitioning away from wholesale distribution and warehousing of aid and instead have international organizations and private security contractors hand out boxes of food to individual Gazan families.
According to Israeli and Arab officials familiar with the matter, the IDF would not be directly involved in the distribution of aid, amid pushback from Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, but troops would be tasked with providing an outer layer of security for the private contractors and international organizations handing out the assistance. Israel believes this method will make it harder for Hamas to divert aid to its fighters, the officials said.
The UN in a statement Sunday said it would not participate in the plan as presented, saying it violates its core principles.
According to a memo by the defense body in charge of coordinating aid to Gaza, COGAT, seen by The Associated Press, all aid will enter Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing, on approximately 60 trucks daily, and be distributed directly to people. Some 500 trucks entered Gaza every day before the war.
The memo said that facial-recognition technology will be used to identify Palestinians at logistics hubs, and text message alerts will notify people in the area that they can collect aid.
COGAT did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
After Israel said it was going to assert more control over aid distribution in Gaza, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs sent an email to aid groups, urging them to reject any “draconian restrictions on humanitarian work.”
The email, which OCHA sent Monday to aid groups and was shared with the AP, further stated that there are mechanisms in place to ensure aid is not diverted.
Earlier, OCHA said in a statement that the plan would leave large parts of the population, including the most vulnerable, without supplies. It said the plan “appears designed to reinforce control over life-sustaining items as a pressure tactic — as part of a military strategy.”
The plan to take over the distribution of humanitarian aid to Gaza is “fundamentally against humanitarian principles,” the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) told AFP on Monday.
He said, “The United Nations agencies, all other international humanitarian groups and NGOs have said no to be part of this idea coming from the Israeli cabinet and from the Israeli military.”
Egeland said the Israeli government wanted to “militarise, manipulate, politicise the aid by allowing only aid to a few concentration hubs in the south, a scheme where people will be screened, where it’s a completely inoperable system.”
“That would force people to move to get aid, and it would continue the starvation of the civilian population,” he said, adding: “We will have no part in that.”
“If one side in a bitter armed conflict tries to control, manipulate, ration aid among the civilians on the other side, it is against everything we stand for,” he stressed.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, the only one to vote against the cabinet’s aid proposal, asserted that “the only aid that ought to enter Gaza should be for voluntary migration, to allow them to emigrate voluntarily.”
“As long as we have hostages languishing in the tunnels, I don’t understand this discussion at all,” he told members of his far-right Otzma Yehudit party during its weekly faction meeting in the Knesset. 
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