Israel’s defense minister says his country’s forces will be free to operate in the Gaza Strip even after the border war
We continued with our insights into the ongoing crisis in the Middle East, with Israel’s war on Gaza continuing and Syrian rebel groups scrambling to form a transitional government in the fall of the Assad regime.
Ministers of Defense of Israel; Israel KatzHe said that the country’s “security control” forces would keep them from being destroyed Gaza Withdrawn, even after the war is over, Israeli soldiers can act with “full freedom of action” in the territory.
In the runner X *Katz, former foreign minister, said;
After the defeat of Hamas’ military and government control in Gaza, Israel will have full freedom of action in Gaza, just like in Judea and Samaria. (the name of the Israeli term for the occupied West Bank).
We will not allow any terrorist organization against Israeli communities and Israeli citizens from Gaza. We do not allow returns to the property before October 7th.
The question of the postwar government of Gaza remained uncertain, a year after the 17th of October in the Hamas-led attack, in which approximately 1,300 people were killed and 360 hostages were taken.
Katz’s predecessor Joab Gallant; who was robbed in Novdenied any long-term Israeli control of Gaza, from which Israel withdrew troops and settlers in 2005 after decades of direct rule. Hamas took full control of Gaza in 2007.
In May, then the defense minister, Gallant said that he “does not agree to the Israeli military administration of Gaza”. “Israel should not have civilian control over the Gaza Strip,” Gallant said at the time, urging the country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to devise a postwar plan for the territory.
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The head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism, the UN’s investigative body, wrote to the new Syrian authorities that they are ready to fight with them and to travel. of Syria that the documents could be secured to implicate the highest officials of the former government. “There is now an opportunity to approach the topic to the top of the government,” he said. The comments came after the head of a Syrian advocacy organization said on Monday that a mass grave outside Damascus contained the bodies of at least 100,000 people ousted by the former government of President Bashar al-Assad.
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German envoys will hold their first talks with representatives of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Damascus today, focusing on the transition process to Syria and the protection of minorities, the German foreign ministry said. France, the main proponent of the rebellion, also sent an embassy to the Syrian capital on Tuesday, with special envoy Jean-Francois Guillaume saying his country was preparing to stand with Syria during the transitional period. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, meanwhile, said the country was ready to engage with Syria’s new leadership after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, but urged caution.
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President-elect Donald Trump has labeled US aid to Assad an “enemy takeover” from Turkey, which has historically aided the opposition. “I think Turkey is very clever … Turkey has done an enemy takeover without losing a lot of lives. I can tell Assad is a butcher, what he did to children,” Trump told reporters at his residence in Florida.
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Ahmed al-Sharaa, the leader of the HTS group that overthrew Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, said that all rebel factions had “released and trained fighters to the ranks of the defense ministry” in a meeting with members of the Druze community. . The need for a meeting with a delegation of British diplomats to end “all the sanctions imposed on Syria has confirmed that Syrian refugees can return to their country”.
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The death toll from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza reaches 45,059, the health ministry says
At least 45,059 Palestinian people have been killed and 107,041 wounded in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza since October 7, 2023, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
Of these, 31 Palestinians were killed and 79 injured in the latest 24-hour reporting period, the ministry said.
Gaza’s health ministry said in the past that thousands of other dead people were most likely lost in the rubble of the territory.
Israel’s defense minister says his country’s forces will be free to operate in the Gaza Strip even after the border war
We continued with our insights into the ongoing crisis in the Middle East, with Israel’s war on Gaza continuing and Syrian rebel groups scrambling to form a transitional government in the fall of the Assad regime.
Ministers of Defense of Israel; Israel KatzHe said that the country’s “security control” forces would keep them from being destroyed Gaza Withdrawn, even after the war is over, Israeli soldiers can act with “full freedom of action” in the territory.
In the runner X *Katz, former foreign minister, said;
After the defeat of Hamas’ military and government control in Gaza, Israel will have full freedom of action in Gaza, just like in Judea and Samaria. (the name of the Israeli term for the occupied West Bank).
We will not allow any terrorist organization against Israeli communities and Israeli citizens from Gaza. We do not allow returns to the property before October 7th.
The question of the postwar government of Gaza remained uncertain, a year after the 17th of October in the Hamas-led attack, in which approximately 1,300 people were killed and 360 hostages were taken.
Katz’s predecessor Joab Gallant; who was robbed in Novdenied any long-term Israeli control of Gaza, from which Israel withdrew troops and settlers in 2005 after decades of direct rule. Hamas took full control of Gaza in 2007.
In May, then the defense minister, Gallant said that he “does not agree to the Israeli military administration of Gaza”. “Israel should not have civilian control over the Gaza Strip,” Gallant said at the time, urging the country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to develop a postwar plan for the territory.
in other developments;
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The head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism, the UN’s investigative body, wrote to the new Syrian authorities that they are ready to fight with them and to travel. of Syria to obtain evidence that could implicate the highest officials of the former government. “There is now an opportunity to access the evidence to the top of the government,” he said. The comments came after the head of a Syrian advocacy organization said on Monday that a mass grave outside Damascus contained the bodies of at least 100,000 people ousted by the former government of President Bashar al-Assad.
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German envoys will hold their first talks with representatives of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Damascus today, focusing on the transition process to Syria and the protection of minorities, the German foreign ministry said. France, the main sponsor of the uprising, also sent an embassy to the Syrian capital on Tuesday, with special envoy Jean-Francois Guillaume saying his country was preparing to stand with Syria during the transition period. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, meanwhile, said the country was ready to engage with Syria’s new leadership after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, but urged caution.
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President-elect Donald Trump has labeled US aid to Assad an “enemy takeover” from Turkey, which has historically aided the opposition. “I think Turkey is very clever … Turkey has done an enemy takeover without losing a lot of lives. I can tell Assad is a butcher, what he did to children,” Trump told reporters at his residence in Florida.
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Ahmed al-Sharaa, the leader of the HTS group that overthrew Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, said that all rebel factions had “released and trained fighters to the ranks of the Ministry of Defense” in a meeting with members of the Druze community. . The need for a meeting with a delegation of British diplomats to end “all the sanctions imposed on Syria has confirmed that Syrian refugees can return to their country”.