While the international community multiplies calls to de -escalation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chose the headlong: the total occupation of Gaza. According to several Israeli media, including Channel 12 And I24Newsthe Israeli government is preparing to extend its military operations to the entire Palestinian territory besiegedincluding in areas where hostages are held.
This choice of a assumed brutalityannounced on the eve of a meeting of the War Cabinet, testifies to an executive desperately locked in a logic of forceeven though The political solution seems at hand.
An Israeli staff divided and worried
But Netanyahu’s decision is not unanimous, including within his own military apparatus. According to Israeli military radio, the Chief of staff, Eyal Zamirwould have expressed its private frustration in the face of the government’s “lack of strategic clarity”. Several high officers fear a stammering in a war of wear and tearwithout a defined political objective, and jeopardizing the lives of 20 hostages still alive.
“Operations will take place even in areas where hostages are held. If the chief of staff does not agree, he will have to resign, “said a spokesman for Netanyahu.
A diplomatic front in motion
While Tel Aviv threatens to advance even further in its logic of destruction, A diplomatic alternative takes shape. Tuesday August 5there France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt made public a joint declaration calling for a two -state solution And when the weapons by Hamas to the Palestinian national authority.
Notable fact: despite its traditional rejection of this option, Hamas has, according to Reuters, said by the voice of three of its leaders that he would be ready to give up power to Gaza to a “non-partisan” governance body, provided that it is accepted by the Palestinians themselves.
This political shift, certainly fragile, shows that Transition levers exist – But without any surrender conditionnor external taxation. For Arab countries it is a call to reconnect with courageous diplomacyanchored in the justice and the right of the Palestinian people to self -determination.
Gaza, Cruelty experimentation field
On the ground, The human assessment increases every day. Monday again, at least 74 Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes, of which 36 people in line to receive humanitarian aid. The health system is on your knees, the infrastructure is destroyed, Famine is watching for hundreds of thousands of civilians.
It is no longer a war: it is Organized humanitarian collapsea attempt at forced depopulationthat even some traditional allies of Israel are beginning to denounce in half a word.
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