Thousands of protesters have taken the streets on the streets in Israel to oppose the government’s plan to expand their military operations in Gaza.
On Friday, Israel’s security cabinet approved five principles to end the war, including taking ‘security control’ on the Gaza Strip, said the Israeli army said it would be “ready to take control of the city”.
Protesters, including family members of 50 hostages in Gaza, 20 of whom are still believed to be alive, fear that the plan risks the lives of the hostages, and urged the government to secure their release.
Israeli leaders have dismissed criticism of their plan, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “it will help free our hostages”.
A group representing the families of the hostages said on X: “Extending the fight ends hostage and soldiers – the people of Israel are not ready to put them not at risk!”
A protector Shakha ralled in Jerusalem on Saturday, told the BBC: “We want the war to end because our hostages are dying there, and we all need to come home now.”
“Whatever we want to do, we need to do it. And if it needs to stop the war, we will stop the war.”
In Jerusalem, there was an ex -serviceman among the protesters who told the BBC that he was now refusing to serve. Max Kresh said that he was a fighter soldier at the beginning of the war and “refused since then.”
“We are more than 350 soldiers who served during the war and we are refusing to continue service in Netanyahu’s political war that hungry innocent Palestinians in Gaza,” he said.
The Times of Israel reported that in a protest at Tel Aviv near the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) headquarters, family members of the soldiers called other soldiers to refuse to serve in an extended military campaign to protect the hostages.
According to The Times of Israel, the mother of one of the hostages has called for a general strike in Israel, although the country’s main labor union will not return it.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also faced a strong opposition from the Army Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Ile Zameer, who, according to the Israeli media, warned the Prime Minister that a complete occupation of Gaza was “Tantamount to walk in a trap” and would put the living hostages at risk.
The pole suggests that most Israel’s people made a deal with Hamas for the release of hostages and the end of the war.
Netanyahu told Fox News earlier this week that Israel planned to capture the entire Gaza Strip and eventually “handed over it to Arab forces”.
Netanyahu said on X on Friday, “We are not going to capture Gaza – we are going to free Gaza from Hamas.” “This will help free our hostages and will ensure that Gaza does not pose a threat to Israel in the future.”
The Israeli Security Cabinet plan lists five “principles” to eliminate war: canceling Hamas, returning all the hostages, reducing the Gaza Strip, taking the security control of the area, and “establishing an alternative civil administration that is neither Hamas nor Palestine Authority”.
The United Nations has warned that a complete military acquisition of Gaza City will risk “terrible results” for the citizens and hostages of Palestinians.
A million live in the city of Gaza to the north of the Gaza Strip, which was the most populous city in the enclave before the war.
The UK, France, Canada and many other countries condemned the Israeli decision and Germany announced that it would in response to Israel’s military exports.
The United Nations Security Council will meet on Sunday to discuss Israel’s plan.
Israel started its military aggressive in Gaza after Hamas -led attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023, killing around 1,200 people and 251 others were taken hostage.
Since then, more than 61,300 people have been killed in Gaza as a result of Israeli military operations, the Hamas-Interested Health Ministry says.
