Netanyahu aligns himself with most far-right elements of government

The ground was laid a few days before with all the leaks in Israeli media about the possibility of occupying Gaza.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went against his own military chief of staff, the families of the captives and growing public opinion, who have had enough of the war and are beginning to wonder about the aims of all these moves.

He aligned himself with the far-right elements of the government, mainly Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who have been calling for the occupation of Gaza, along with the settler movement, ever since the immediate aftermath of the Hamas attack on southern Israeli on October 7, 2023.

This is going to be a very difficult operation for the prime minister.

His chief of staff has told him again and again that after 22 months of war, the troops are tired, the reservists are also tired, and that they would have to redeploy troops from elsewhere, including the occupied West Bank or the border with Lebanon or in Syria.

Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel-Hamid reports.

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