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Netanyahu presented with plans to continue fighting in Gaza
Israeli media are reporting that army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has presented Netanyahu with several plans to gradually expand the fighting in Gaza during a meeting with Defence Minister Israel Katz.
According to the Haaretz newspaper, Zamir’s plans would allow military operations to stop easily if a ceasefire were negotiated.
Haaretz reported that Israel’s military leadership opposes a complete occupation of Gaza and prefers to continue carrying out focused raids and establishing routes that would split the enclave into multiple areas.
The army chief proposed that troops fully control the Netzarim Corridor, where they currently only control its eastern part, and create more routes like the Morag Corridor, which splits Rafah and Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
However, the army predicted that this pattern of operations has the potential to lead to casualties among the captives.
Israeli society becoming ‘very dangerous’: Knesset member
As we reported, Israeli Knesset member Ofer Cassif was forcibly removed from the podium after he cited an Israeli writer who said they could no longer ignore the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Cassif told Al Jazeera that it was not “surprising” because it was not the first time that he or his comrades were forced off the podium after they used the “accurate terms of genocide or atrocities or massacre or war crimes”.
“We are simply prohibited or prevented from [saying] the true terms to describe the ongoing situation in Gaza,” said Cassif, leader of the left-wing Hadash party.
With Israeli society very polarised due to the war, Cassif warned it was becoming “very dangerous”, explaining that at a demonstration in the centre of Israel with his colleague, he was “nearly lynched by a fascist mob”.
“I’m afraid that we are on the brink of a serious eruption of violence, and I’m afraid even bloodshed within Israel. I wouldn’t say a civil war, but very close to that,” Cassif said.
Israel’s opposition leader warns Gaza occupation will lead to captives’ deaths
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid says the direction the government is heading will lead to “all the hostages dying of hunger, beatings, and torture, facing danger due to [Israeli army] operations”.
“We will wake up every morning to more and more ‘cleared for publication’ announcements, and in return, we will control two million Palestinians – funding their electricity and water and building them schools and hospitals with the money of Israeli citizens,” Lapid wrote on X.
“If we occupy and annex Gaza, we can forget about the Saudis, Emiratis, or Europeans helping to fund the lives of the Palestinians. You annex – you pay. You annex – from that moment, everything is at your expense,” Lapid warned.
Israeli news outlets have been reporting that Netanyahu was tabling the full occupation of Gaza, despite reservations from the army about the effectiveness of the idea.
