Will Israel return to a widespread war in Gaza?

Since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reluctantly registered in the ceasefire with Hamas in January, he has not hidden his hatred for his conditions. In the early hours of Tuesday, the fragile peace he allowed.

When Ghazan slept, the Israeli army fired huge strikes on the coastal pocket, More than 400 killed The Palestinians in one of the bloody days in the region since the first weeks of War 17 months.

The renewed attack was welcomed by the right -wing allies Netanyahu It depends on its survival and strengthening its alliance as it faces pressure on the scandals and security failure that allowed the Palestinian militant group Hamas on October 7, 2023.

But it also sparked anger of the families of the hostages who are still detained in Gaza, the depth of the humanitarian catastrophe in the pocket, and pushed accusations from his opponents that he was acting out of political considerations, not the national.

“Netanyahu has a personal interest that continues the war.” “He has no feeling of urgency to stop him.”

The original agreement of Israel was agreed in January, depicting the three -stage process. Hamas will gradually export the Israeli hostages who still keep it in Gaza, in exchange for liberating Palestinian prisoners and the spices that will eventually lead to a full Israeli withdrawal of the pocket and a permanent end to hostile actions.

But in recent weeks, Netanyahu, who originated from the support of US President Donald Trump, has rejected the end of the war and the withdrawal of forces from the pocket, and sought to engineer a new arrangement instead. According to the proposed conditions, a large number of hostages will be issued early in the planned in exchange for an extension for a period of weeks of the truce, but without ensuring a permanent end of the war-conditions agitation to reject.

Israeli officials indicated on Tuesday that they could stop the new attack in Gaza if Hamas agreed to their demands, and people familiar with the situation said that the mediators were participating with both sides in the hope of preventing the entire domain of hostilities.

However, Israeli officials have made clear that they were ready just because if the armed group refuses to give up their demands. One of them said: “If Hamas really returns to the negotiating table, then this will stop.

Israel’s initial assault on Gaza, which was launched in response to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023-during which the militants killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials, and took 250 hostages-the most intense in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

But despite the size of the attack – which was killed by more than 48,000 people, according to Palestinian officials, and reduced most of Gaza to the rubble that is not inhabited – Israel has not achieved any of its targets of war: the launch of all hostages and the destruction of Hamas.

Yakov Amidror, former National Security Adviser to Netanyahu, argued that if Israel began in a renewed attack, it is now in a situation that allows him to deploy more forces in Gaza for a longer period than it was at the beginning of the war, as it has since succeeded in weakening other members such as the Lebanese National Group, Hasbouli.

“In the past, we had no enough power to control the areas (we took in Gaza),” said Amidor, a fellow at the Jewish Institute of National Security of America in Washington. “We have killed those who were there.

However, Netanyahu’s critics have argued that the timing of a renewed attack was less than military considerations, and more about local policy.

For several months, the Prime Minister was under pressure from his right -wing allies to resume the fighting. Former National Security Minister Itamar bin Ghafir withdrew the extremist Jewish Authority Party from the coalition in protest against the ceasefire deal in January, and Finance Minister Paisalel Smotrich threatened to follow its example.

But the renewed attack had changed the political equation, as Bin Ghafir announced on Tuesday that he joined the Netanyahu alliance. Analysts also argued, unlikely SMOTRICH threats will be fulfilled.

The opposition politicians claimed that the strikes were an attempt to distract from a fiery storm on Netanyahu’s plan to launch the head of Israel. Local Intelligence Agency. “The soldiers on the front lines and the hostages in Gaza are just cards in the survival game (Netanyahu),” said Yair Golan, the leader of the Left Labor Party on X.

Israel’s renewable operations attracted a fierce reaction from the former hostages and relatives who were still detained in Gaza, who warned that the attack was showing the lives of nearly 25 prisoners believed to be alive.

“What about those who left behind?” Lerry Albaj, one of the hosts edited earlier this year, wrote on Instagram.

“Once again, their fate is played,” she wrote. “Once again, their lives are at risk instead of keeping it again.

Analysts said there is also a danger that a renewed attack could provoke tensions in the occupied West Bank, which, despite the war in Gaza, remained relatively calm during the fighting. In the wake of Israel’s strikes on Tuesday, Hamas called on the Palestinians in the region to respond to Israel’s attack on Gaza.

“At least now, the Israeli Defense Army controls the situation (in the West Bank),” Yar said. “But there is no insurance company (guaranteeing you) that this will remain the case in the near future.”