{"id":272088,"date":"2025-04-02T09:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T09:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/israel-announces-plans-to-seize-large-areas-of-gaza-as-it-expands-offensive-against-hamas\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T09:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T09:51:06","slug":"israel-announces-plans-to-seize-large-areas-of-gaza-as-it-expands-offensive-against-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/israel-announces-plans-to-seize-large-areas-of-gaza-as-it-expands-offensive-against-hamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Announces Plans to Seize \u2018Large Areas\u2019 of Gaza as It Expands Offensive Against Hamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/02\/multimedia\/02int-israel-gaza-01-vhcb\/02int-israel-gaza-01-vhcb-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Israel Announces Plans to Seize \u2018Large Areas\u2019 of Gaza as It Expands Offensive Against Hamas\" title=\"Israel Announces Plans to Seize \u2018Large Areas\u2019 of Gaza as It Expands Offensive Against Hamas\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israel\u2019s defense minister announced on Wednesday an expansion of the military offensive in Gaza against Hamas, including plans to seize \u201clarge areas\u201d of the enclave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The minister, Israel Katz, said newly captured territory would be \u201cadded to the security zones\u201d that the military currently maintains in Gaza. He added that the expanding operation involved \u201cwide-scale evacuations of Gaza\u2019s population from combat zones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The remarks \u2014 which <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/21\/world\/middleeast\/israel-hamas-gaza-hostages.html\" title=\"\">echoed a similar threat last month<\/a> from Mr. Katz \u2014 appeared to be an attempt to further pressure Hamas amid efforts to restore a shattered cease-fire. Both sides have been speaking to mediators about <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/30\/world\/middleeast\/israel-hamas-ceasefire-gaza.html\" title=\"\">a potential deal<\/a> to restore the truce, but a breakthrough has not been achieved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It remained far from clear whether either side could force the other to accept its terms for an agreement. Hamas is demanding an end to the war and a full Israeli withdrawal in exchange for the release of all hostages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel laid out what appeared to be his demands for postwar Gaza \u2014 all of which are likely to be non-starters for Hamas. They include Hamas\u2019s laying down its arms, comprehensive Israeli security control in Gaza and the implementation of President Trump\u2019s proposal that Gazans leave en masse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThat\u2019s the plan. We aren\u2019t hiding this. We\u2019re ready to talk about it at any time,\u201d Mr. Netanyahu said in remarks distributed by his office on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Israeli military resumed its attacks against Hamas in Gaza on March 18 after Israel and Hamas failed to reach an agreement to extend a cease-fire that started in January. More than 1,000 people in Gaza have been killed since the truce\u2019s collapse, according to the Gaza health ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israeli forces have since advanced on the ground in central Gaza, taking over much of a key road that divides the enclave in half, as well as in the southern city of Rafah.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The military has also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/31\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-israel-rafah-evacuation-order.html?searchResultPosition=32\" title=\"\">issued sweeping evacuation orders<\/a> for parts of the enclave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">More than 140,000 people in Gaza have been displaced since the cease-fire broke down, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/resources\/reports\/unrwa-situation-report-165-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-jerusalem\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according to the United Nations<\/a>. Many were only just <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/24\/world\/middleeast\/israel-gaza-offensive-palestinians-displaced.html\" title=\"\">beginning to resettle<\/a> into their old neighborhoods across the Gaza Strip before being forced to flee again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Gaza health officials say that more than 50,000 people have been killed in the enclave since the war began after the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. That attack killed 1,200 people and saw 250 taken hostage to Gaza. At least 59 hostages remain in the enclave, although about 35 of those are presumed dead, according to the Israeli government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Gabby Sobelman<!-- --> contributed reporting from Rehovot, Israel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/02\/world\/middleeast\/israel-gaza-offensive-hamas-war-katz.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s defense minister announced on Wednesday an expansion of the military offensive in Gaza against Hamas, including plans to seize \u201clarge areas\u201d of the enclave. The minister, Israel Katz, said newly captured territory would be \u201cadded to the security zones\u201d that the military currently maintains in Gaza. He added that the expanding operation involved \u201cwide-scale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/02\/multimedia\/02int-israel-gaza-01-vhcb\/02int-israel-gaza-01-vhcb-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1314,6271,4757,163575,15351,43,32652,5552,38,165166,165165,1486,4758,9054,1925,174307,37144,52,7204],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272090,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272088\/revisions\/272090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}