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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Netanyahu orders full Israeli military occupation of Gaza: Israeli media</h1>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time">August 4, 2025</div>
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<div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div><p><strong>The
Israeli regime\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has ordered a full
military occupation of the Gaza Strip following the 22-month genocidal
war against the Palestinian territory. </strong></p><p>Senior officials
from Netanyahu's office confirmed this decision on Monday evening,
stating, "Israel is going to conquer the Gaza Strip," according to
Israeli media reports.</p><p>The plan involves Israeli occupation forces expanding their ground invasion into more areas, including central refugee camps.</p><p>\u201cWe
are moving to occupy the Strip - the decision has been made,\u201d an
official in Netanyahu's office said, adding that Hamas will not release
the 50 remaining hostages without surrender.</p><p>\u201cIf we do not act now, the hostages will die of starvation while Gaza remains under Hamas control,\u201d the official claimed.</p><p>Palestinian
and Israeli rights groups say that 50 Israelis remain captive in Gaza,
including 20 believed to be alive, while the Israeli regime is holding
more than 10,800 Palestinian detainees, many of whom face torture,
starvation and medical neglect.</p><p>A senior official with the
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas said on Sunday that Netanyahu
seeks to kill Israeli captives through starvation.</p><p>Izzat al-Rishq
said Israeli captives are also being affected now by the starvation and
thirst policy that Netanyahu and the \u201cNazi\u201d administration have imposed
on the people in Gaza, emphasizing that the Israeli regime shoulders
full responsibility for their condition.</p><p>\u201cWhen Netanyahu could not
find the hostages and kill them through airstrikes, he is now trying to
end the matter by starving them,\u201d he added.</p><p>He noted that the
Palestinian resistance forces observe religious and humanitarian
principles in dealing with Israeli captives, sharing their own food and
water with them as they do with the wider Palestinian population.</p><p>The
Hamas official emphasized that those Israeli captives who were released
in the previous prisoner exchanges in good physical and mental health
are now suffering from hunger, weakness and weight loss \u2014 mirroring the
plight of besieged Gaza residents.</p><p>Currently, Israeli forces
occupy about 75% of Gaza. The escalation announced by Netanyahu faces
criticism domestically and internationally, with calls for a diplomatic
resolution growing amidst rising humanitarian concerns in Gaza.</p><p>Opposition to a full occupation includes warnings that it could risk hostage lives and prolong the war.</p><p><strong>'Full occupation of Gaza means captives will die'</strong></p><p>Israeli
lawmaker Gilad Kariv denounced the plan a "death sentence" for the
captives, while a group of former military and intelligence chiefs
warned that ongoing warfare could lead to Israel's defeat.</p><p>Israeli
lawmaker Merav Cohen said that any plan to take full control of Gaza,
including areas where Israeli captives are being held, would mean \u201cwe
will bring our brothers back only in coffins\u201d.</p><p>\u201cWe want them alive, we do not want them in coffins,\u201d Cohen said.</p><p>Former
Mossad director Tamir Pardo emphasized that the humanitarian crisis in
Gaza was largely of Israel's making, slamming the regime for
perpetuating the war under false pretenses.</p><p>While both Israeli
officials and global leaders have called for a ceasefire, there are
currently no indications that the Netanyahu regime will resume
negotiations with Hamas.</p><p>In January, a temporary ceasefire
agreement between Israel and Hamas led to the release of several
captives and Palestinian abductees held illegally in Israeli jails.</p><p>However,
the Israeli regime refused to extend the deal as initially planned,
choosing instead to intensify its military assaults on Gaza by
shattering the 2-month deal.</p><p>Dozens of the captives have already
been killed in Israel\u2019s indiscriminate and relentless bombardment of the
Palestinian territory, and now, the Israeli-imposed starvation
is taking its toll on them, too.</p><p>Israel started its genocidal
campaign on October 7, 2023, but the regime has failed to achieve its
declared objectives in Gaza despite killing nearly 61,000 Palestinians,
mostly women and children.</p><p>Rights groups have condemned the
Israeli blockade on vital supplies as a crime against humanity and a
flagrant violation of international law.</p><p>Since May, Israeli forces
have killed more than 1,330 Palestinian aid seekers, and over 8,810
others have been wounded in Israeli attacks, mainly at GHF centers.</p><p>The
United Nations agencies say more than 6,000 Palestinian children are
being treated for malnutrition resulting from an all-out blockade of
Gaza.</p><p>At least 175 people, including 93 children, have starved to
death in Gaza since the Israeli regime launched the war in October 2023.</p><p>Israel
has rejected calls from the UN, aid agencies, and world leaders to
allow more aid trucks into the besieged region to alleviate the crisis.</p><p>More Palestinians die every single day due to forced starvation and malnutrition.</p><p>Parents
watch their children waste away as deliberate aid restrictions from
Israel mean hunger is becoming a killer across the besieged territory.</p><p>The
whole Palestinian population was completely relying on UN agencies and
other partners to distribute food. Israel has dismantled the UN-backed
aid delivery system and replaced it with a controversial US-backed
mechanism, which humanitarian aid workers and Gaza authorities say has
only exacerbated the crisis.</p></div></div></div>
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