Netanyahu alludes to an extended war in Gaza. The former Israeli heads and heads of spy oppose
Jerusalem (AP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Having heard a wider military action in Gaza On Tuesday, even though the former Israeli army and intelligence leaders called at the end of the war by almost 22 months.
The new pressure on Netanyahu came while the Gaza Ministry of Health said that the number of Palestinian deaths had exceeded 61,000. Health officials reported new deaths of hungry Palestinians in search of food at distribution points. While despair rises, the coordination aid of the Israeli defense corps has announced an agreement with local merchants to improve aid deliveries.
Among those who express themselves, there were former leaders of the internal security service of Shin Bet of Israel, the Mossad and Army espionage agency – as well as the former primary minister Ehud Barak. In a video published on social networks this week, they said that the far -right members of the government hold Israel “hostage” to prolong the conflict.
Netanyahu’s objectives in Gaza are “a fantasy,” said Yoram Cohen, a former Shin Bet chief, in the video.
“If someone imagines that we can reach all the terrorists and each pit and each weapon, and in parallel, bringing our hostages home-I think it’s impossible,” he said.
The Palestinians then stand the body of a woman who was struck by a truck while trying to reach a convoy of humanitarian aid moving along the Morag corridor near Rafah, in the Gaza of the South Gaza, Monday August 4, 2025. (AP photo / Mariam Dagga)
More difficult military action possible
Netanyahu Convened his security firm to lead the soldiers on the next stage of the war, suggesting that an even more difficult action was possible. However, the meeting ended for hours later without any announcements on the plans of Israel.
President Donald Trump, asked by a journalist if he supported the reoccupation of Gaza, said that he was not aware of the “suggestion”, but that “it will belong to Israel”.
Netanyahu said its objectives include Hamas defeat, the release of the remaining 50 hostages and that Gaza never threatens Israel again after the attack led by Hamas in 2023 has triggered the war.
The Israeli media reported disagreements between Netanyahu and the army chief, the lieutenant-general Eyal Zamir, on how to proceed. Reports, citing anonymous officials from the Netanyahu office, said the Prime Minister was pushing the army, which controls approximately three -quarters of Gaza, to conquer the whole territory – a stage that could endanger hostages, deepen the humanitarian crisis and isolate more internationally Israel.
Zamir opposes this stage and could resign or be expelled if it is approved. Israeli officials did not respond to requests for comments on reports.
No more seekers of help killed
The Palestinians find it difficult to obtain food and humanitarian aid at the back of a truck while it moves along the Morag corridor near Rafah, in the South Gaza Strip, Monday August 4, 2025.
Gaza health officials said the Israeli forces opened fire on Tuesday morning to the Palestinians in search of aid and targeted attacks in the center and southern Gaza, killing at least 45 people.
There was no immediate commentary on the Israeli army, which said that after previous shots around help for help, he only pulled warning fire on people who have approached his strength.
The dead include at least 26 people killed in the Morag corridor, an Israeli military area where looters and desperate crowds have unloaded convoys of help from the United Nations.
Six people were killed in Teina, near a road leading to a site led by the Gaza Humaninian Foundation on Israeli back, an American entrepreneur. Morgue’s files at Nasser Hospital, which received the bodies, detailed deaths and places.
The hospital is part of the Ministry of Health, which does not distinguish between activists and civilians, but says that about half of the war dead were women and children. The ministry operates under the government of Hamas. The United Nations and other international organizations consider it the most reliable source of injury data.
Sami Arafat, a seven -year -old father, described chaos in the Morag corridor on Tuesday, saying that crowds rushed to a convoy of United Nations aid trucks and Israeli forces drawn to them.
“There are no buildings to shelter us from the shooting,” he said. “The area is entirely rubble.”
He said that the looters brandishing knives climbed on the trucks first and torn the help boxes, taking sugar that could be sold on the market while leaving rice cheaper behind.
Elsewhere in the center of Gaza, the Al-Awda hospital said it had received the bodies of six Palestinians who were killed when Israeli troops targeted crowds near another GHF aid distribution site.
The GHF said that there had been no incidents on its sites on Tuesday and that most recent violence had been linked to the United Nations aid deliveries.
Several hundred Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fires since May, while heading for food distribution sites, parcels and aid for aid to the ventilated management, according to witnesses, local health officials and the United Nations Human Rights Office. The Israeli army says that it only pulled warning fire and disputes the toll.
The Israeli defense organization responsible for coordinating aid, Cogat, said on social networks that there will be a “progressive and controlled renewal of the entry of goods by the private sector in Gaza”.
He indicated that a limited number of local merchants had been approved for the plan.
“Staped with humiliation and blood”
Mohammed Qassas of Khan Younis said that his young children were so hungry that he was forced to trucks to help storms, which rarely reach warehouses these days because they are arrested by hungry crowds.
The Palestinians find it difficult to obtain food and humanitarian aid at the back of a truck while it moves along the Morag corridor near Rafah, in the South Gaza Strip, Monday August 4, 2025.
“How am I supposed to nourish them? No one has pity,” he said on Monday. “If we are fighting, we get food. If we don’t fight, we don’t get anything.”
It has become a routine to see men come back from the search for help carrying bodies as well as bags of flour.
The blockade of Israel and the military offensive made almost impossible to provide safe help, contributing to the territory slide. Aid groups say that the elderly measures of Israel are measures to allow more aid are far from sufficient.
Families of Hostages in Gaza Fear Famine Also affects them and blame Hamas.
As the international alarm has mounted, several countries have Gaza assistance on Gaza. The UN and the aid groups call Such an expensive and dangerous fall For residents, and say they offer much less help than trucks.
“The whole world looks”
The Palestinians meet daily for funeral prayers.
“We are unarmed people who cannot endure this,” cried Maryam Abu Hatab in the courtyard of Nasser Hospital.
Ekram Nasr said his son had been shot dead by looking for help near the Morag corridor.
“I had to go alone to wear my son,” she said, tears in the eyes. “I collected the remains of my son like dog meat in the streets.”
“The whole world looks at,” she added. “They look at our patience, our strength and our faith in God. But we no longer have the power to bear. “
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Shurafa reported Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip. The writer Associated Press Josef Federman of Jerusalem contributed to this report.
