According to local health officials of more strikes in Gaza during the weekend they pushed the death tolls of people killed in the territory more than 50,000 since the war began.
Israel launched its offensive after the terrorist attacks led by Hamas on October 7, 2023 in which some 1,200 people were killed and another 250 refused, marking an important escalation in a decades conflict.
Since the campaign of the Israeli army, the extreme right member of the Coalition Government of the Israeli Prime Minister, Netanyahu, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has joined the cabinet. He and his party Otzma Yehudit, the name translates as ‘Jewish power’, He left the fragile coalition about the opposition to the agreement of Alto El Fuego, which according to him was “reckless” and undermine Israel’s progress.
Now, Israel seems prepared for the possibility of a new phase of the war if Hamas does not accept the extension proposal, experts told NBC News, warning about the possibility of an Israeli occupation of Gaza wider of Gaza.
“It is quite clear and understood that the objective of the current military operation is to press Hamas to accept Witkoff’s proposal, not to return to the negotiating table,” Kobi Michael, principal researcher of the National Security Studies Institute, a group of Tel Aviv experts, said on Monday.
If Hamas continues to reject the proposal, Michael said he believed that the Israeli forces “would increase military pressure”, with the possibility that Israel seeks “to occupy the strip of Gaza” at least with a “temporary military administration” that would aim to dismantle Hamas.
