Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel intends to take full military control over the Gaza Strip before handing over the controlling responsibility to Arab forces.
The Israeli Prime Minister spoke with Fox News’ Bill Hemmer prior to a central security meeting to decide whether to order a full military occupation of Wartorn Strip – a step that UN officials have said would have “catastrophic consequences”.
When asked if Israel would take control of the entire 26 km long strip, Mr. Netanyahu said Wednesday: “We intend to.”
“We don’t want to keep it. We want a security over,” he continued. “We won’t control it. We won’t be there as a governing body.”
He said Israel instead wanted to extradite the territory to Arab powers that would control it, even if it remains unclear who would take on the role.

Hamas has said that Mr Netanyahus’s statement “confirms that he is seeking to get rid of his prisoners and sacrifices them to serve his personal interests and extremist ideological agendas”.
They added: “We confirm that Gaza remains resistant to the occupation and tries to impose guardianship on it.
“Expanding the aggression against our Palestinian people will not be a trip in the park and the price will be heavy and expensive for the occupation …”
Meanwhile, a Jordanian official told Reuters that Arabs would “only support what Palestinians agree and decide,” confirms that “security in Gaza must be done through legitimate Palestinian institutions”.
The Security Cabinet session is following a meeting this week with the head of the military, as Israeli officials have described as tense as Israeli military chief of staff, LT Gen Eyal Zamir, pushed back to expand the campaign.

Israeli media has said that Mr Netanyahu sees this as the only way to destroy Hamas and free up the remaining hostages after a collapse of ceasefire. But LT Gen Zamir and some other ministers have warned that this step could be disastrous for the hostages and people of Gaza.
Opinion measurements show that most Israelis want the war to end in an agreement that would see the release of the remaining hostages that Hamas possesses. It is believed that of the 50 remaining hostages inside Gaza, about 20 are still alive.
Families of hostages and released hostages along with hundreds of supporters gathered to protest outside the Israeli cabinet session in Jerusalem on Wednesday night. The families bound in front of government offices.
Anat angrest, the mother of the still Captive Matan angry, said: “For a year and 10 months we have tried to believe that everything is done to bring them back-you have failed.
“Now it is necessary to do the one thing that the government has not yet done – put an extensive deal on the table that brings them all home.

“Exactly a year ago, we were told that military pressure would bring them home – a few weeks after it was six hostages murdered in tunnels.”
Meanwhile, Omar Awadallah told the Palestinian Deputy Foreign Minister, The independent He believes that Mr. Netanyahus’s statements were intended to refuel any ceasefire agreement and that genuine security for Israelis and Palestinians can only get through peace no more conflict.
“Netanyahu says this is an attempt to undermine any effort for a real ceasefire in the Gaza Strip – he uses this smoke screen to control the entire Gaza, while Israel is already the occupation force,” he said.
“We believe that security comes with peace, not to resume Gaza or commit genocide against the Palestinian people or violate international law. Security comes with peace, with stability, with what the international community is willing to do to achieve it.”
He said that while Palestinians greeted further pressure on Israel from countries such as Britain and France, which have promised to recognize the state of Palestine under certain conditions.
“To the international community, we have to accept apartheid -colonialism in the 21st century?” he said. “This is our problem with the international community and some international players – you have to take action. Words are not enough.”

When Mr. Netanyahu discussed the next steps in Israeli’s military expansion, at least 42 Palestinians were killed in air strikes and shootings over southern Gaza, according to local hospitals on Thursday.
At least 13 sought help in an Israeli military zone in southern Gaza, where UN aid convoys are regularly overwhelmed by looting and desperate crowds.
Another two were killed on roads that led to nearby places driven by the controversial United States and the Israeli supported Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), according to Nasser Hospital, who received the bodies.
Medecin’s Sans Frontieres (MSF) released a report on Thursday, calling for a cessation of dismantling the controversial aid organization scheme, as well as restoring the non-coordinated aid mechanism.
Raquel Ayora, Director General of MSF Spain, said: “In MSF’s nearly 54 years of operation, we have rarely seen such levels of systematic violence against unarmed civilian.