The Israel Army has modified its operations in the Gaza Strip and has stopped its offensive on the city of Gaza by order of the Israeli government, according to several Israeli media on Saturday. The military have not retired, and have orders to maintain their positions.
The Office of the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamín Netanyahu, as well as the Israeli army had reported this morning that the country and its armed forces are preparing for “the immediate implementation” of the first phase of the Plan of the US President for the immediate liberation of the hostages, alive or dead, even in the hands of Hamas.
According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, after the government instructions, the army went on to “exclusively carry out defensive operations in the Gaza Strip, stopping the operation to take control of the city of Gaza.”
The EFE agency has been able to verify in the field how the shots of the Israeli terrestrial forces and their drones in the Gazati capital continue, together with the artillery bombardment against buildings in areas where the Israeli army is deployed. There has also been a slight replication of Israeli troops in the city, about 200 meters.
The Israeli army warned this Saturday that their troops still operate in the city and alert the Gazatis that they do not return there because it is “extremely dangerous.” “The FDI troops (Israel Defense Forces) continue to operate in the city of Gaza, and return to it is extremely dangerous,” said the spokesman for the Avichay Adraee army in the social network X (formerly Twitter).
Adraee warns that the entire territory north of Wadi Gaza, an area of the strip located in the center of the enclave, south of the city of Gaza, “remains a dangerous combat area.” “Staying in this area is dangerous; therefore, the Rashid route is still open for its displacement to the south,” he says on the Costa de Gaza road, the only one that their residents can use to move between the north and the south.
This road has been closed by the Israeli army for several days in the direction from south to north, to prevent residents of the city of Gaza displaced from returning to the capital, where Israel has maintained a land offensive for two weeks to take it.
According to a statement issued this morning by the Office of the Chief of the Executive, the Israeli government “will continue to work” in cooperation with President Donald Trump and his team to “bring the war to an end according to the principles established by Israel”, which “are consistent with the vision of President Trump.” The statement does not mention Hamas’s request to sit down to negotiate certain aspects of this plan.
The Chief of the General Staff of Israel, Eyal Zamir, ordered this same morning “to advance the preparation” for the implementation of the first phase of the “Trump Plan” for the release of hostages. In an own statement, the army has reported the call of a “special evaluation” of the situation by the Chief of the General Staff after Hamas’s statement from his disposition to the release of hostages and prisoners. Hamas, which has accepted most of the premises of the plan designed by the US Administration, has requested however negotiating the details of the hypothetical peace agreement.
Zamir also emphasized this military evaluation that the safety of troops is an “absolute priority”, so he indicated that they must “maintain a high level of alert and surveillance, in addition to reinforcing the need for a quick response to neutralize any threat.”
Trump celebrated Hamas’s message in a video posted on his social networks and claimed to be “close to achieving” that the Israel War ends in the Gaza Strip. In addition, he demanded that Israel ceased the bombings on the Palestinian enclave to give rise to the release of hostages that remain in Custody of Hamas.
The 20 -point plan that Trump presented last Monday at the White House, accepted by Netanyahu during his visit to Washington, proposes the immediate end of the war, the liberation of hostages by Hamas and the formation of a transition government for Gaza who would be supervised by the US president and the former British prime minister Tony Blair.
This roadmap also contemplates the demilitarization of the strip and the possibility of negotiating in the future a Palestinian state, something discarded, however, by the Israeli prime minister.
Source: www.eldiario.es
