The Minister of Defense says that the Israeli forces to stay in the buffer Gaza area

Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday that the Israeli forces will remain in the buffer areas they created in Gaza, even after reaching any settlement to end the war.

Since the resumption of their work last month, the Israeli forces filmed a wide “security zone” that extends in the depth of Gaza and presses more than two million Palestinians to smaller areas ever in the south and along the coast.

“On the contrary, the Israeli Defense Army does not evacuate the areas that have been cleared and seized,” Katz said in a statement after a meeting with the military leaders.

“The (Israeli Defense Forces) will remain in the security areas as a buffer between the enemy and societies in any temporary or permanent situation in Gaza – as in Lebanon and Syria.”

In a summary of its operations during the past month, the Israeli army said it now controls 30 percent of the small Palestinian territories.

In the south of Gaza alone, the Israeli forces seized about 20 percent of the pocket lands, controlling the border city of Rafah and pushing the interior to the Mourge Corridor, which runs from the eastern edge of Gaza to the Mediterranean Sea between Rafah and the city of Khan Yunis.

The army has already held a wide corridor throughout the central NetZarim, and has extended a buffer zone throughout the border, hundreds of meters from the inside, including the Shuja’yya area to the east of Gaza City in the north.

Israel says that its forces have killed hundreds of Hamas fighters, including many leading leaders in the Palestinian militants group, but the operation raised the anxiety of the United Nations and European countries.

Gaza is a “collective grave” for the Palestinians: MSF

More than 400,000 Palestinians have been displaced since the resumption of hostilities on March 18, two months after the relative calm, according to the United Nations Humanitarian Office, Usha, air strikes and Israeli bombing, killed at least 1630 people.

The Medical Charity Foundation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said Gaza has become a “mass grave”, as humanitarian groups are struggling to provide assistance.

“We are witnessing the destruction of all the population in Gaza and its forced displacement in Gaza,” Amandy Piazerol, the emergency coordinator in Gaza, said in a statement.

Katz said that Israel, which prevented the delivery of aid supplies to the region, was creating an infrastructure to allow distribution through civil companies later. But he said that the siege on help will remain in place.

The Minister of Defense said that Israel will push forward a plan to allow Jazzan who want to leave the pocket to do so, although it is unclear to any countries that will be ready to accept large numbers of Palestinians.

Katz’s comments, which are repeated Israel’s request for Hamas to disarm, confirm what extent remains for any ceasefire agreement, despite the efforts made by the Egyptian brokers to revive the efforts made to reach an agreement.

Hamas has repeatedly described calls to disarm as a red line that will not cross it and said that the Israeli forces should withdraw from Gaza under any permanent ceasefire.

“Any truce lacks real guarantees to stop the war, achieve full withdrawal, lift the siege, and start reconstruction will be a political trap,” Hamas said in a statement on Wednesday.

The prominent Palestinian writer was killed in the latest strikes

Two Israeli officials said this week that there was no progress in the talks despite media reports that there is a possible truce to allow some 59 hostages to be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners.

Israeli officials said that the growing military pressure will force Hamas to release the hostages, but the government faced major demonstrations by Israeli demonstrators demanding a deal to stop and restore the fighting.

On Wednesday, the Palestinian medical authorities said that an air strike killed 10 people, including Fatima Hasuna, a well -known writer and photographer who documented the war. They said a strike in another house was killed in the north.

Israel launched its campaign in Gaza in response to the October 2023 attack by the militants led by Hamas on southern Israel who killed 1,200 people and witnessed 251 hostages, according to the Israeli return.

The attack was killed at least 51,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities, and destroyed the coastal pocket, forcing most of the population to move several times and reduce the outstanding areas to the rubble.

Hamas, the Ministry of Health in Gaza, said that Israel’s suspension of fuel, medical supplies and food since early March has begun to obstruct the work of the remaining few working hospitals, while drying medical supplies.

“Hundreds of patients and injured individuals are deprived of basic drugs, and their suffering is getting worse due to the closure of the border crossings,” the ministry said.