No alternative to military action in Gaza: Senior Israeli lawmaker
Hanoch Milwidsky, a deputy speaker of Israel’s Knesset, has advocated sending the military back into Gaza and occupying the whole territory.
“I don’t see any alternative to military action there,” Milwidsky, a member of the right-wing Likud party, told Israeli media. “If we want to follow the Trump plan, we need to fully conquer Gaza.”
Milwidsky acknowledged that returning to war would risk the lives of Israeli soldiers and captives, but said “that’s unfortunately a price that must be paid” to fully defeat Hamas.
“What’s the alternative? Build fences again? Set up checkpoints again?” he asked.
Israeli occupation ‘root of all sins’: Israeli ex-army general
Amiram Levin, former commander of the northern region in the Israeli army, has stated that the Palestinian conflict “must be resolved and cannot be contained”.
In an interview with Israeli media outlet Maariv, Levin emphasised that without addressing the Palestinian issue, “there will be no serious normalisation with the Saudis or the Lebanese.
“The continuation of the Israeli occupation is the root of all sins,” he said. “Peace is elusive, and we must reduce the occupation and draw borders where we return to being a Jewish majority without returning to the 1967 borders.”
Levin also argued that relinquishing certain territory is in Israel’s best interest.
“It is in our interest to get rid of large areas where a large number of Palestinians live, not because it is good for them but because it is good for us.”
