Starmer says “Israel” should reconsider “wrong” Gaza control plan

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday said “Israel's” plan to take control of Gaza City is "wrong" and asked it to immediately reconsider the decision.

"This action will do nothing to bring an end to this conflict or to help secure the release of the hostages," he said, warning that it "will only bring more bloodshed".

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“Israel's” security cabinet earlier approved a plan proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the military to "take control" of Gaza City, his office said in a statement Friday.

Under the plan to "defeat" Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the “Israeli” army "will prepare to take control of Gaza City while distributing humanitarian assistance to the civilian population outside combat zones", it said.

Nearly two years into the war in Gaza, the “Israeli” prime minister faces mounting pressure at home and abroad for a truce to pull the Palestinian territory's more than two million people back from the brink of famine and to spare captives held by Hamas.

As he convened his security cabinet on Thursday, Netanyahu said “Israel” planned to take full control of Gaza but did not intend to govern it.

Ahead of the meeting, Netanyahu told US network Fox News that the government intended to seize complete control of the Gaza Strip.

He added that Israel did not want "to keep" the Gaza Strip, which “Israel” occupied in 1967 but withdrew troops and settlers from in 2005.

Netanyahu said “Israel “wanted a "security perimeter" and to hand the Palestinian territory to "Arab forces that will govern it properly without threatening us and giving Gazans a good life."