approved a plan to occupy Gaza City, escalating its brutal aggression against the devastated Palestinian territory and displacing the city’s residents from the north to the south.

This move has sparked renewed criticism both domestically and internationally, with growing concerns over a war that has lasted for nearly two years.

The plan begins with occupying Gaza City by displacing its roughly one million residents to the south, then surrounding the city and carrying out incursions into residential areas. The second phase includes occupying refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip, large parts of which have already been destroyed.

According to UN data, 87% of the territory of the war-torn Palestinian enclave is now either under Israeli occupation or subject to evacuation orders. The UN warned that any further military expansion would have catastrophic consequences.

In a related development, the UN Security Council will hold a meeting today, Saturday, to discuss Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza City.

Diplomatic sources said the Security Council meeting will take place at 19:00 GMT at the request of several council member states, amid mounting international concern over the Israeli plan.

Several countries had earlier requested an emergency Security Council meeting. Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour told reporters earlier today: “As we speak, several countries, on our behalf and in their own right, will request a Security Council meeting.”

Early Friday morning, the Israeli Security Cabinet approved the plan to occupy Gaza City in what has been described as the most dangerous step since the start of the war, effectively paving the way to empty the city and impose a new military settlement reality under the pretext of eliminating the resistance.

The Cabinet’s decision was met with sharp international criticism and warnings of grave humanitarian and security repercussions, amid heightened concern for the fate of Palestinian civilians and the Israeli captives inside the Strip.

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