The Israeli forces in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria will remain indefinite

Israel The Minister of Defense said on Wednesday that the forces will remain in the so -called security areas in Gaza Stripand Lebanon and Syria Undially, statements can increase the complexity of talks with Hamas due to a ceasefire and hostage.

The Israeli forces acquired more than half of Gaza in a renewed campaign to pressure Hamas to release the hostages after Israel ended the ceasefire last month. Israel also refused to withdraw from some areas in Lebanon after a ceasefire with Hezbollah group last year, and it seized a buffer zone in southern Syria after the rebels omitted Bashar al -Assad in December.

“Unlike the past, (the Israeli army) does not sit with the areas that have been cleared and seized,” Israel Defense Minister Katz said in a statement. The army “will remain in the security areas as a buffer between the enemy and the (Israeli) societies in any temporary or permanent situation in Gaza – as in Lebanon and Syria.”

Palestinians and both neighboring countries view the presence of Israeli forces as a military occupation in violation of international law. Hamas said it would not shoot dozens of the remaining hostages without a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and a permanent ceasefire.

“They promised the hostages to come first. In practice, Israel chooses to seize lands in front of the hostages,” the main organization representing the hostages of the hostages said in a statement.

She said: “There is one desirable and glory solution, and this is the issuance of all hostages simultaneously as part of an agreement, even at the expense of ending the war.”

Israel says it should maintain control of what is indicated as security areas to prevent the recurrence of Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, as thousands of militants stormed southern Israel from Gaza, killing about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and kidnapped 251.

The Israeli attack killed more than 51,000 Palestinians, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, which does not say the number of civilians or fighters, but they say that women and children are more than half of the dead. Israel says it has killed about 20,000 militants, without providing evidence.

The bombing and Israel were left from vast areas of the region that is not valid for housing, and about 90 % of the population of nearly two million Palestinians have been displaced. Many have been displaced several times, and hundreds of thousands are crammed in faded tents camps with food diminishing after Israel closed all imports more than a month ago.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to inform Hamas and return 59 hostages still in Gaza – believed that 24 of them are alive. He said that Israel will implement US President Donald Trump’s proposal to resettle many Gaza population in other countries through what Netanyahu refers to as “voluntary migration.”

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The Palestinians and the Arab countries rejected Trump’s global proposal, which human rights experts say it is likely to violate international law. The Palestinians in Gaza say they do not want to leave, and they are afraid of another collective expulsion, such as what happened during the war surrounding Israel in 1948.

The Trump administration, who received credit for mediating the ceasefire that was seized in January, has since its full support for Israel’s decision to end it and cut all humanitarian aid. Steve Witkoff, Trump’s envoy in the East, is trying to mediate the new ceasefire agreement more voracious to Israel, but it seems that these efforts have not made great progress.

Netanyahu is floundering in the most religious government in the history of Israel, and called on coalition partners to re -establish the Jewish settlements in Gaza.

Israel withdrew its forces from Gaza and dismantling its settlements there in 2005, but it maintained control of most of the land borders in Gaza, the coast, and the air field, and joined Egypt in imposing a siege on the region after Hamas seized power in 2007.

Israel seized Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank – the lands that the Palestinians want for a future country – in the Middle East war in 1967. It also seized the Golan Heights of Syria in this conflict and annexed it in a move that was not recognized by any country except the United States.

Shorrava of Deir Al -Bala, Gaza, mentioned a sector.

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