Israeli Defense Minister threatens to “seize additional territories” in Gaza

Israeli Defense Minister ordered the military to “seize additional areas in the newspaper” if Hamas did not release all other hostages.

On Friday, Israel Katz stated that the military would continue their rough operation in the newspaper “with an increase in intensity” until all hostages of “living and dead”.

This is another escalation in the conflict that returned this week when Israel violated the ceasefire from January to restore its bombing. Hundreds of people were killed in the following violence.

“The more Hamas continues the refusal, the more the territory she loses Israel,” Katz said.

In his statement on Friday, Katz said that Israel was still agreed to the proposal, which the US Messenger Steve Vitkoff was brought out to release all stolen, both alive and dead, in advance and two stages with ceasefire between them. “

“We strengthen the fighting with the blows from the air, the sea and the land and expanding the maneuver until the hostages are released, and Hamas will be broken,” Katz wrote.

The Defense Minister also said Israel “implements a voluntary plan for the US President for Gaza residents.”

Trump said he wants the US to take over and restore the gas strip, while constantly removing the population of two million Palestinians.

Palestinian authorities and Hamas said the strip is “not sold”, while the UN warned that any forced resettlement of civilians from the occupied territory is strictly forbidden in accordance with international law and “equivalently to ethnic purification”.

Month of negotiations led by the United States, Qatar and Egypt found in the ceasefire proposed in three stages. Israel and Hamas did not agree on how to withdraw a truce for the first stage.

Ceasefire was broken on Tuesday when Israel launched a heavy wave of air strikes On the Gaza Strip, killed more than 430 in two days, the Ministry of Health Hamas said. On Thursday, Hamas launched three rockets in Tel -Vavve.

Israeli government’s press -secretary David Menzer said the group “dismissed each hostage case”.

The plan stopped when the US and Israel suggested expanding the first phase. Hamas rejected the changes and said it was an “brazen attempt by Israel” to avoid the agreement.

Israel says Hamas is still holding 59 hostages, 24 of which are believed to remain alive.

Hamas denied that he was responsible for the delay of the negotiations, and stated that he was “still deeply involved” and “engaged in mediators with full responsibility and seriousness”.

In a statement on the telegram, Hamas wrote that he was discussing “Vitkof’s proposal and other different ideas, all to ensure the exchange of prisoners providing the prisoners, ending the war and reaches abolition” (Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip).

In his statement, Katz also stated that civilians would be evacuated from the areas to which IDF is oriented.

Previous evacuation orders were sent to panic through Palestinian families, many of whom have repeatedly displaced the war and there are few safe options.

The Israeli military launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 were taken hostage.

Since then, more than 48,500 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, the Ministry of Health Hamas says, and there is a large -scale destruction of houses and infrastructure in the lane.