A senior Israeli defense officer said Monday that the next visit of President Donald Trump in the Middle East is the “Window of Opportunity” to ensure a hostage agreement, otherwise, Israel will begin a new military operation in the Gaza Strip.
“If there is no hostage agreement, Operation ‘Gideon Charmots’ will begin with great intensity and will not stop until all its goals are achieved,” said the official according to a Reuters report in reference to a Sunday decision on the night of the Israel Security Cabinet.
Israel will use the period of approximately 10 days to prepare for its new operations, which will imply tens of thousands or reserve troops with the objective of the bar over the entire Gaza Strip.
Israel approves the plan to capture all of Gaza, calls tens of thousands or reserve troops
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with Defense Minister Israel Katz. (Israeli PMS office)
In an apparent movement to counteract the Hamas terrorist group, the defense forces of Israel Willain in captured territory instead of withdrawing forces after an operation is completed. Israel has not presented a plan of how long it intends to occupy the Palestinian lands in a movement that violated the un negotiated trains and recognized international borders.
A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not answer the Fox News Digital questions.
The missing hosages and families forum said in a statement that the plan approved by the Cabinet to occupy the territory and maintain the presence of Israel in Gaza should be appointed the “Smotrich-Nananyah Plan” renounces the hostages and the security of Israel and that of Israel. ”
In the statement, the forum said the plan is an admission of the government that it is looking for territories to free hostages and pointed out that more than 70% of the Israelis have opposed military prioritization in hostages in recent surveys.
Trump had planned to make his trip to the Middle East, where he will visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates between May 13 and 16, his first international visit as a White House meeting, to mean the importance of USS to USS.
While this will be a great geopolitical visit, his first international trip ended, during his visit to Italy for the funeral of Pope Francis, where Hey maintained narrow discussions with Ukrainian President Volodyymyr Zelenskyy.
Neinder the White House or the State Department immediately answered the Fox News Digital questions about Israel’s increasingly aggressive position and how the hostage negotiations and the peace agreement are affecting.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on the left, meets the special envoy of the then elected president Donald Trump to the Middle East Steve Witkoff. (Photo of the Prime Minister’s Media Advisor)
The comments made by Netanyahu last week sent to the negotiators of Alto El Fuego staggering after he, for the first time, confirmed that returning the tasks of the hostages of Hamas almost 580 days ago on October 7, 2023 was not his highest priority.
“We have many goals, many objectives in this war. We want to bring all our hostages back,” said Netanyahu. “That is a very important goal. In war, there is a supreme objective. And that supreme objective is the victory over our enemies. And that is what we will achieve.”
The Israeli prime minister also justified on Saturday its increasingly aggressive operations in Gaza that have resulted in the death of more than 50000 in the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, including more than 1500 Cilquren Barbism. “
The building belonging to the Berbag family was destroyed after an Israeli attack, leaving several Palestinians, including children, dead and wounded in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on August 2, 2024. (Photo of Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu through Getty Images)
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Qatar, which has a heavy bone in hostage negotiations and high fire efforts, responded in a Saturday publication on social networks and said that comments “fall short of the most basic standards of political and moral responsibility.”
“Portatrate the assault on Gaza as a defense of ‘civilization’ echoes the rhetoric of regimes throughout history that have used false narratives to justify crimes against innocent civilians, advisor Alhanmed al.
Ansari did not immediately answer Fox News Digital questions.
Yael Rotem-Kuriel of Fox News contributed to this report.
