While the IDF's top brass remains opposed to a full-scale takeover of Gaza, Israel's defense minister said he will ensure the army carries out any directive issued by Israel's political leadership
'Who's lying here?': The parents of Israeli hostage Nimrod Cohen met U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff in Tel Aviv. After telling Witkoff that Israel's desire to prolong the war or conquer Gaza 'contradicts saving the hostages,' Cohen's mother says Witkoff told her there would be no occupation or expansion of the war
By fostering Hamas as a competitor to the Palestinian Authority, Israel has created an anomaly in Gaza that exists in no other Middle Eastern country. Now that Israel rejects any alternative Palestinian government, it will be forced to step into Hamas' shoes and become the direct and sole occupier of Gaza