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ISRAEL ISSUES FORCED DISPLACEMENT ORDERS AMID FEARS OF FULL
OCCUPATION IN GAZA  
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Peter Beaumont
August 6, 2025
The Guardian
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_ Israeli military leaders reportedly oppose Netanyahu’s plans as
the country faces growing diplomatic isolation _

Gaza’s health ministry said at least 135 Palestinians had been
killed and 771 injured in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours., (AP
Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

 

The Israeli military has put parts of Gaza City and Khan Younis under
new enforced displacement orders amid fears that the country’s prime
minister, Benjamin Netanyahu
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to order the full occupation of the Palestinian territory later this
week.

Israel’s security cabinet is expected to meet on Thursday evening
and sign off on plans for an expanded operation despite reported
serious misgivings from senior military officers.

The order for Gaza – euphemistically described by the Israel Defense
Forces as an “evacuation” – is the latest in dozens of such
announcements that have displaced the vast majority of Gaza’s
population, many on multiple occasions.

The orders came as the US president, Donald Trump
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over expanded Israeli control in Gaza was up to Israel. “As far as
the rest of it, I really can’t say. That’s going to be pretty much
up to Israel,” he told reporters on Tuesday.

Many people had returned to Gaza City only relatively recently after
long periods of displacement to find their homes war-damaged and
looted, with even doors and windows stolen in some cases.

As Gaza’s health ministry reported that five more people had died
from starvation in the coastal strip
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which has been plunged into a devastating hunger crisis owing to
Israel’s complete block on aid entering earlier this year, Jordan
reported an aid convoy of 30 trucks that had left for Gaza had been
attacked by militant Jewish settlers on entering Israel.

After the attack, the second in days, Jordan accused Israel of failing
to act to prevent repeated assaults. “This requires a serious
Israeli intervention and no leniency in dealing with those who
obstruct these convoys,” said Jordan’s government spokesperson
Mohammad al-Momani.

Amid continuing scenes of desperate suffering in Gaza, where vast
areas have been rendered fields of rubble by incessant Israeli
strikes, the strip’s civil defence agency reported that 20 people
were killed when an aid truck overturned on a crowd of people.

“Twenty people were killed and dozens injured around midnight last
night in a truck carrying aid overturned … while hundreds of
civilians were waiting for aid,” said the agency’s spokesperson,
Mahmoud Bassal.

The incident took place near the Nuseirat refugee camp as the truck
was driving on an unsafe road that Israel had previously bombed,
Bassal added.

Amid acute shortages of aid, trucks entering Gaza have been surrounded
and looted by hungry Palestinians on numerous occasions, contributing
to a pervasive sense of chaos.

The new forced displacement order for Gaza City was made as Israeli
media reported Netanyahu’s apparent determination to push ahead with
an expanded war after consultations with his military chiefs on
Tuesday and despite growing disquiet from serving and former Israeli
security officials
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the proposals reportedly including the Israel Defense Forces chief of
staff, Eyal Zamir.

According to reports, Zamir warned Netanyahu during a tense,
three-hour meeting on Tuesday that the plan could trap the military in
the territory amid concerns Israel’s military is already badly
overstretched. Zamir has made no public statements on the matter.

Critics of the plan say any push for full occupation – a demand
being made by Israel’s far right – would put the lives of Israeli
hostages in Gaza at risk, could take between a year and two years to
fully achieve, and would come at the expense of the country’s
increasing diplomatic isolation, with the international community
increasingly horrified by Israel’s actions.

Among those who spoke out against the plan on Wednesday was the
Israeli opposition leader, Yair Lapid. “I told Netanyahu that
occupying Gaza is a very bad idea,” Lapid said after meeting the
Israeli prime minister. “You don’t make such a move if a majority
of the people aren’t with you.”

Other critics include former leaders of Israel’s Shin Bet internal
security service, the Mossad spy agency and the military – and also
the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak. In a video posted to
social media this week, they said far-right members of the government
were holding Israel “hostage” in prolonging the conflict.

Netanyahu’s objectives in Gaza are “a fantasy” said Yoram Cohen,
a former head of Shin Bet, in the video.

Amid signs of divisions between Netanyahu and military commanders, the
defence minister, Israel Katz, said on Wednesday that the army’s
chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, could “express his views”, but that
the military would ultimately have to “execute” any government
decisions on Gaza.

Katz made the statement on X after reports in the Israeli media in
recent days suggested that Zamir is opposed to a government plan to
fully occupy the Gaza Strip.

“It is the right and duty of the chief of staff to express his
position in the appropriate forums, and after decisions are made by
the political echelon, the will execute them with determination and
professionalism … until the war’s objectives are achieved,” Katz
wrote.

“As the defence minister responsible for the on behalf of the
government, I must ensure that these decisions are carried out – and
so it will be,” he added.

Gaza’s health ministry said that at least 135 Palestinians,
including 87 people seeking food, had been killed and 771 injured in
Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours.

_Peter Beaumont is a senior international reporter who has reported
extensively from conflict zones including Africa, the Balkans, the
Middle East and Ukraine. The former Jerusalem correspondent of the
Guardian, he has won several awards, including the Orwell Prize for
his work in Iraq, and is the author of The Secret Life of War:
Journeys Through Modern Conflict
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