Israel’s Minister of Defense says that Israeli troops will remain in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely, as the military squeeze their control over several occupied territories.
“Unlike the past, the [Israeli military] It is not evacuating areas that have been clear and seized, ”said Israel Katz in a statement on Wednesday.
The army “will remain in security areas as a shock absorber between the enemy and [Israeli] Communities in any temporary or permanent situation in Gaza, as in Lebanon and Syria, ”said the statement.
The army said he had converted 30 percent of Gaza into a “security” buffer zone and reached around 1,200 “terrorist objectives” since he resumed his offensive on March 18, after almost two groups of Hamas.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has promised to annihilate Hamas and return 59 captives in the hands of armed groups in Gaza, including 24 that Israel believes they are alive. Hamas has said that he will not agree to free the captives without a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and a high fire.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group on Wednesday launched a video of Captive Rom Braslavski. He seemed to be under coercion, said he was covered with oons and begged Netanyahu to stop the war. The main organization that represents the families of the captives accused the Israeli government in a statement of “choosing to take territory against hostages.”
Israel says that he must maintain control of what he calls “security zones” to avoid a repetition of the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 in which some 1,139 people were killed and another 250 were kidnapped, including captives that have already been released by Hamas, and those that were still in the hands of the group.
Netanyahu has also said that Israel will implement the proposal of US President Donald Trump for the resettlement of much of the population of Gaza in other countries through what Netanyahu refers to the “voluntary emigration.”
The Lebanese president, Joseph Aoun, said that Israel’s continuous presence in some areas of the southern Lebanon was “investing” the total deployment of the Lebanese army as required by the high fire between Hezbollah and Israel.
According to the agreement signed in November, which ended more than a year of war, both parties agreed to withdraw from the south of Lebanon and let the area be controlled by the Lebanese army. However, Israel only partially took its troops from the south of the country, leaving the soldiers in at least five locations.
The Lebanon Ministry of Health said that two attacks with unmanned Israeli planes in the south of Lebanon killed two people on Wednesday. Israeli attacks in Lebanon have killed more than 70 civilians since the effect of Alto Fire Toke in November.
Israel also established several military positions within the Syrian territory, even at the Summit of Monte Hmon, after the combat planes launched hundreds of strikes after the expulsion of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The immediacy of the Israeli government revealed its position towards the new Syrian government led by the former opposition group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), qualifying it as “a terrorist group of Idlib that Tok seized from Borny.”
‘There is no humanitarian aid’ to enter Gaza
Katz said in an X statement that Israel’s policy was “clear.”
“Humanitarian aid will not be allowed in Gaza,” defense minister said Wednesday.
Preventing humanitarian aid delivering the strip of Gaza “is one of the main pressure tools that prevents Hamas from using this against the population,” he added.
“In the current reality, no one, allow any humanitarian to help Gaza, and are not being made preparations to allow any help of this type.”
The Israeli Minister of Culture, Miki Zohar, echoed this position, saying: “The aspirable murderers in Gaza do not deserve humanitarian assistance from any civil or military mechanism.”
“You just have to pour Hellfire about terrorism manufacturers until the last host returns from Gaza,” Zohar said in X.
Israeli authorities have blocked all the aid by entering Gaza for more than six weeks, worshiping the already catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.
The United Nations on Wednesday rejected a new authorization mechanism that sought to introduce greater control over the delivery of help in Gaza by Israeli forces, stating that help organizations already had a mechanism to guarantee that help to Hamas.
“The aid to Gaza has been obstructed for too long,” said the UN, added that her teams were “ready to provide assistance to the most needy based on humanitarian principles.”
Meanwhile, Israeli air attacks continued on Wednesday, with at least 25 people killed in attacks through Gaza. Palestinian journalist Fatima Hassouneh and 10 family members were killed in an Israeli air strike that attacked her home in the city of Gaza.