Israeli army battle tanks are positioned near the Gaza Strip boundary in southern Israel on 5 August 2025.
Middle East Eye – Aug 8, 2025
Israel‘s security cabinet has approved a plan to occupy the Gaza Strip, according to local media reports on Friday.
The operation is set to begin with the conquest of Gaza City, with the aim of clearing it of its approximately one million Palestinian residents.
While the official statement referred to the move as a “takeover”, Israeli news outlet Ynet reported that the term “occupy” was deliberately avoided to sidestep the legal obligations associated with formal occupation under international law.
A senior Israeli official told local media that the word choice was for official purposes only, confirming that the actual intention is to occupy the Gaza Strip.
The Prime Minister’s Office said that the military will distribute “humanitarian assistance to the civilian population outside the combat zones”.
The office outlined five core principles for ending the war: the dismantling of Hamas, the return of hostages, the demilitarisation of Gaza, Israeli security control over the territory, and the establishment of a civil administration not affiliated with either Hamas or the Palestinian Authority.
An Israeli official told Axios that the plan aims to empty Gaza City of civilians within two months. A siege would then be imposed on the city, targeting Hamas members, followed by a ground operation.
According to NBC News, recent satellite imagery has shown a significant Israeli military build-up near the Gaza boundary, indicating preparations for a potential new ground offensive.
Amid reports of the occupation plan, Hamas said on Thursday that the move proves Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not interested in freeing the captives and reaching a deal.
“Any expansion of aggression against our Palestinian people will not be a walk in the park and will come at a heavy cost to the occupation,” the Palestinian movement said.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday said Israel’s decision was “wrong” and urged it to reconsider.
The UN asked Israel to immediately halt the plan.
Since the war began on 7 October 2023, Israeli troops have launched several ground assaults in Gaza City and across the strip.
Israeli forces have killed over 61,000 Palestinians, including 18,000 children, in the ongoing war, which has been widely described as a genocide.

More good news and bad optics for the jews. Eventually the whole world will turn against these demons and a deserted Southern Atlantic island will be their final destination where they can feed off of each other.
LOL..
Well that’s alright then isn’t? ..everything’s legal..the isreally parliament have rubber stamped it so everything’s in order..
you see, that, right there, is how these imbeciles operate..they are doing it to you now, this minute, in the shithole you domicile in…I’ve no doubt that Al Caput when he’d been supposedly arrested for tax evasion by the cross dressing pedophile J edgar hover, would have written a law to make it illegal to imprison Al caput..for anything..
or jack the ripper..who was really doing valuable medical research on the streets of whitechapel for the lancet…or Ghengis cohen ..who was just allowing his ‘mongol hordes’ a bit of a leg stretch..and audit..
It’s simple you see..it’s all just a matter of perspective…and book-keeping..
This has been the intent since 1948, who is kidding who here?
So much for ‘Israel being on the verge of defeat’ trope we’ve been hearing for the past year on TTS from ritter, macgregor, johnson, etc. Oh that’ right they’re all cia-kgb click bait assrags.
but just yesterday it was ‘israel on verge of defeat’….lol
Absolute chaos’ as police are swarmed whilst making arrest at Palestine Action demo
Over 50 arrests were made during the march outside Parliament.
its illegal to protest
but its ok for israel to commit mass murder
something wrong here
the police forget who pays their wages
Hulk Hogan Was About To Expose israels Adrenochrome Industry Before He Died
Fact checked by The People’s Voice Community
Wrestling icon Hulk Hogan was found dead in his Florida home last week. Authorities rushed to declare it a heart attack. “Natural causes,” they say. But behind the scenes, those who knew him are saying something very different Hogan was about to blow open the Hollywood adrenochrome industry — the sick, secret network that fuels the elites with what they call the “devil’s elixir.”
Hogan had seen it all. He’d used … heavily. He’d relapsed. He’d escaped. And he wanted revenge — on the same Hollywood predators and elite figures who lured him into that world, lied about what the drug really was, and what it cost in terms of young lives. Gibson knows we’re not afraid to go where the truth leads. That’s why he gave us the message.
Remember the slitting of an animals throat and watching its agony as it dies
is identical