The Israeli government plan, presented by Benjamin Netanyahu to “defeat” Hamas in the Gaza Strip, was widely denounced by international and governments, since the announcement of this Thursday, August 7.
The Israeli army “is preparing to take control of the city of Gaza,” said the offices of the Israeli prime minister. A statement that caused Hamas, who denounces “a new war crime” and declares that this decision means the “sacrifice” of the hostages.
In response, several countries requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, while the UN Chief Antonio Guterres warned “a dangerous escalation.”
“He immediately stopped”
The Israeli government plan “aimed at taking complete military control of the occupied Gaza Strip must be arrested immediately,” Volker Türk’s High Commissioner of Human Rights said on Friday in a statement.
This decision “goes against the decision of the International Court of Justice according to which Israel must end its occupation as soon as possible, the realization of the solution to two agreed states and the right of the Palestinians to self -determination,” he added.
“A diplomatic bankruptcy”
Within the Israeli opposition, Yaïr Lapid punished, in X, a “disaster that will lead to many other disasters”, will bring “the death of hostages, that of many soldiers, costs tens of billions to Israeli taxpayers and (provoke) a diplomatic bankruptcy.”
If Emmanuel Macron, Jean-Noël Barrot or any member of the government of François Bayrou, several heads of state or foreign representatives, have expressed their opposition to the project.
The president of the European Council, Antonio Costa, believes that “such decision must have consequences for the relations of the EU-Israel, which will be evaluated by the Council.” He called Israel to “reconsider his decision.”
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, called Israel to “return” to his plan for Gaza. “A high fire is necessary immediately,” he said.
British prime minister Keir Starmer called “error” on Friday and urged the Benjamin Netanyahu government to “reconsider him immediately.” Add: “This action in no way will contribute to ending the conflict or obtaining the release of hostages. It will only generate more massacres.”
Germany suspends weapons exports to Israel
Several countries have accompanied these condemnations. Belgium has announced that summoning the Israel ambassador. “The objective is clearly testifying to our total disapproval of this decision,” said Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prítot.
German Friedrich Foreign Minister Merz announced the suspension of arms exports that Israel could use in Gaza. It becomes “increasingly difficult to understand” how the Israeli military plan would achieve its objectives in the Gaza Strip and “in these circumstances, the German government does not allow even more notification, the exports of military equipment that will probably be used in the Gaza Strip,” said Friedrich Merz, cited in a press release.
“Gaza belongs to the Palestinian people”
Türkiye urged the international community on Friday to “prevent” the implementation of this plan. “We call on the international community to assume their responsibilities in order to prevent the implementation of this decision, whose objective is to take out the Palestinians from their own land by making Gaza be uninhabitable,” he wrote the Turkish foreign affairs in a statement.
China expressed, on the other hand, its “serious concern,” urging Israel to “immediately stop their dangerous actions.” “Gaza belongs to the Palestinian people and is an integral part of the Palestinian territory,” said a spokesman for the China Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a written response to the AFP.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry, in X, accuses Israel of provoking “famine” and “ethnic cleaning” in the Palestinian territory. Ryad “condemns in the stronger terms the decision of the Israeli occupation authorities to occupy the Gaza Strip.”
The decision of the cabinet “means abandoning the hostages, while completely ignoring the repeated warnings of military leadership and the clear will of the majority of the Israeli public,” the family forum deplored, the main organization of the relatives of the Israeli hostages.
Source: BFM TV
