Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Jerusalem does not plan to restart settlement construction in the Gaza Strip after the end of the military operation, and that the plans are only for security control. This was reported by TASS.
At the press conference, the prime minister was asked whether it was possible to restart the settlement activities of the ruling coalition.
Netanyahu responded negatively. He emphasized that he wanted the security area of the Gaza Strip, where demilitarization was necessary, to be controlled by Israel, and that in this case, the construction of Israeli settlements was not a real goal.
Before this Netanyahu warned The abandonment of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement from full-scale entry into the conflict has declared that the Israeli army is ready to escalate tensions on the northern front.
The situation in the Middle East escalated after thousands of Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, when Hamas announced the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The aim of Israel’s response to Operation Iron Sword was to repel the attack, release more than 200 hostages, including foreigners, and destroy Hamas. In order to achieve this goal, Israel launched major rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip from the first day of the operation. At the same time, the Israeli National Security Council decided to stop the supply of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the sector. Humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza began to be sent through the Rafah checkpoint only after October 20, and it was stated that their volume was insufficient.
27 October Israel announced About the “expansion” of the ground operation in Gaza. It is not known exactly when the operation started, but before the operation, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes and moved to shelters and the south of the region. November 5, as part of the ground operation of IDF forces surrounded Gaza city and supplies cut off, still exists in central Gaza to continue fights.
Formerly political scientist named One of the reasons why the Palestinian-Israeli conflict flared up.