Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans for a new military push in the Gaza Strip have raised warnings from the army leadership, opposition from hostage families and concerns that more Palestinians will be killed, and risk isolating the country even further.As the security cabinet prepared to meet to discuss the proposals, Netanyahu gave an interview to Fox News in which he said Israel intended to take full control of Gaza, in order to assure its security, remove Hamas from power and enable the transfer of the governance of the civilian population to another party, without giving details. But he suggested that Israel did not want to keep the territory.”We don’t want to govern it,” Netanyahu said, in English. “We don’t want to be there as a governing body. We want to hand it over to Arab forces.”He did not give details about possible arrangements or which countries could be involved; still, this was a rare indication of what he might be envisioning for a post-war Gaza.For now, however, Netanyahu wants an expanded offensive that is likely to see the Israeli military, which says it controls about 75% of the territory, operating in Gaza City and the camps in the central part of the strip, where around one million Palestinians live and the hostages are thought to be held.The potential operations, which could take months, would mean the mass displacement of people with the potential to worsen the humanitarian crisis there.This could spark fresh condemnation from count …
