{"id":8050,"date":"2025-05-02T19:36:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T23:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/?p=8050"},"modified":"2025-05-02T19:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T23:36:31","slug":"israeli-report-reveals-netanyahu-moving-to-expand-war-on-gaza-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/israeli-report-reveals-netanyahu-moving-to-expand-war-on-gaza-strip-02052025\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli report reveals Netanyahu moving to expand war on Gaza Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to order an expansion of the ongoing onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip, Hebrew-language Maariv days says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Netanyahu is expected to convene a war cabinet meeting on Friday for a situation assessment, the Israeli newspaper reported on Thursday. &nbsp; The meeting, which includes senior generals and minister of military affairs Israel Katz, is expected to approve a plan to expand and intensify the Israeli onslaught across the war-wracked territory, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel has already expanded its ground aggression in the besieged Gaza Strip, seeking to seize a large portion of the Palestinian territory. &nbsp;The regime intensified its onslaught last month, with Katz announcing plans to \u201ccapture extensive territory\u201d to establish what new &#8220;security zones&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Critics say the Israeli regime &#8220;is sending more soldiers into Gaza to fight in the same areas where battles have already taken place repeatedly.&#8221; &nbsp;The regime has already rejected a deal proposed by the Hamas resistance movement that would have involved the release of all Israeli captives held in Gaza in return for ending the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamas says it is willing to engage in comprehensive negotiations that would secure the release of all Israeli captives in exchange for a full ceasefire, Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, reconstruction efforts, and the lifting of the siege.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The families of Israeli captives, as well as several Israeli opposition groups, are pressuring Netanyahu to accept the agreement. &nbsp;They have accused Netanyahu of abandoning the captives in favor of prolonging the war for his political survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent weeks, thousands of Israeli reservists have signed letters demanding that Netanyahu&#8217;s regime stop the war in the besieged strip.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Civil defense official Mohammed Al-Mughayyir said the toll included eight people killed in an airstrike on the Abu Sahlul family home in Khan Yunis refugee camp in southern Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four people were killed in an airstrike east of Shaaf in Gaza City\u2019s al-Tuffah neighborhood. &nbsp;At least 17 more were killed in other attacks across the besieged Palestinian territory, including one that hit a tent sheltering displaced people near the central city of Deir el-Balah, the agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Images showed residents digging through rubble in search of bodies, which were carried away on stretchers under blankets. &nbsp;At Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, rescuers rushed a screaming wounded child out of an ambulance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel resumed its brutal campaign in the Gaza Strip on March 18, unilaterally breaching a two-month truce. &nbsp;Gaza&#8217;s Health Ministry said on Thursday that at least 2,326 people have been killed since Israel resumed strikes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 52,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, most of them women and children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In November 2024, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and the former Israeli minister for military affairs, Yoav Gallant, for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to order an expansion of the ongoing onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip, Hebrew-language Maariv days says.&nbsp; 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