The UN says that the planned military offensive of the city of Israel de Gaza ‘must stop immediately’

London – From the heels of the Israel Security Cabinet that approves the plans to occupy the city of Gaza, the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights, Volker Turk, said that “this additional escalation will result in a more unusual suffering, a meaningless destruction,” according to a statement published Friday morning.
Turk asked the offensive to be “arrested immediately.”
“The Israeli government plan for a complete military acquisition of the busy Gaza Strip must stop immediately,” Turk said. “It contains the decision of the International Court of Justice that Israel must put its occupation to its end as soon as possible, to the realization of the solution of two agreed states and the right of the Palestinians to self -determination.”

A Palestinian child has a stroller on the site of an Israeli strike in the morning in a house, in the city of Gaza, on August 8, 2025.
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The president of the European Union Council, Antonio Costa, firmly urged the Israeli government to reconsider his decision to take care of the city of Gaza, saying that only the situation will worsen in Gaza.
“Such an operation, together with the continuous illegal expansion of settlements in the West Bank, the mass destruction in Gaza, the blockade of humanitarian aid and the propagation of the famine, not only violates the agreement with the EU announced by the high representative on July 19, but also undermines the fundamental principles of international law and universal values,” Costa said in the coast. A publication on social networks.
“Such decision must have consequences for the relations of the EU-Israel,” he said.
“The situation in Gaza is still dramatic, and the decision of the Israeli government will only worsen it. The solution of two states remains the only long -term sustainable solution for peace and security in Israel and the region,” Costa said.
Germany, one of the closest allies in Israel, announced on Friday that will suspend weapons exports to Israel that could be used in the Gaza Strip “until it is coming more.” Germany said that the “liberation of hostages and negotiations determined on a high fire are our highest priority.”
“The even harder military action of the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip, approved last night by the Israeli security cabinet, makes it increasingly difficult, from the perspective of the German government, see how these objectives are achieved,” said German chancellor Friedrich Merz in a statement.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, retreated the decision.
“Germany is rewarding Hamas’ terrorism for shipping weapons to Israel,” Netyahu said in a statement published after talking with Merz.
Germany is the second largest exporter of military teams to Israel, after the United States, according to The International Peace Research Institute of Stockholm.

The buildings destroyed in the Israeli attacks surround improvised shelters for the Palestinians displaced in the city of Gaza on August 8, 2025. The Israel army “will take control” of the city of Gaza under a new plan approved by the security cabinet of the Prime Minister, touching a wave of criticisms inside and outside the country.
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In response to Israel’s plans to take care of the city of Gaza, Hamas said that this was the reason why Israel withdrew from the last round of negotiations, and that they had been “about to reach an agreement for a high fire and the exchange of prisoners.”
Hamas described Israel’s last plan as a new war crime, saying that the Israeli government “does not care about the fate of their captives,” and that they are sacrificing them.
Hamas reaffirmed the “maximum flexibility and positivity” towards a high fire, but warned Israel that the current plan “will have a high cost and will not be a walk through the park.”
The members of the family of the hostages and other protesters met in front of the building where the Israeli cabinet was in session to protest Netanyahu’s proposal to occupy all of Gaza, to measure a “death sentence” for the remaining hostages in a statement of the hostages and the headquarters of the missing families forum.
“For a year and ten months we have been trying to believe that everything is being done to bring them back, it has failed. Now it is necessary to do the only thing that the government has not yet done, put an integral treatment on the table that will link them all home,” said Anat Angut, mother of the hostages kill anters.
Israel’s plan for an expansion of military operations is produced in the midst of the international condemnation of the deteriorated humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.
“The security cabinet has approved the proposal of the Prime Minister for the defeat of Hamas,” said the office of the Israeli Prime Minister in a statement published on Thursday. “The FDI [Israel Defense Forces] It will be prepared for the acquisition of the city of Gaza while guaranteeing the provision of humanitarian aid to the civilian population outside the combat areas. “
Turk, however, said that potential climbing will only lead to more problems in the region. leading to what he says: “Destruction without meaning and crimes of atrocity.”
“The war in Gaza must end now. And the Israelis should be allowed and the Palestinians to live next to each other in peace,” Turk said. “Instead of intensifying this war, the Israeli government should put all its efforts to save the life of Gaza civilians by allowing complete flow and without restrictions on humanitarian aid. Hostages must be immediately and unconditionally released by armed groups.

The Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike in the morning in a house, in the city of Gaza, on August 8, 2025.
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In a Fox News interview earlier this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said repeatedly that he does not want to “govern Gaza”, but wants to “deliver it to the Arab forces that will rule it properly without threatening Israel.
Hamas, who responded to Fox News interview, said in a statement that “Netanyahu’s statements represent a flagrant investment of the negotiation process and clearly expose the real reasons behind their withdrawal of the last round of conversations, although we approach a final agreement.”
On Sunday, an Israeli official told ABC News that Netanyahu was pressing to expand the military operation in Gaza on the grounds that he felt that Hamas is not interested in reaching a new agreement of Alto El Fuego under which the surviving hostages could be released.
When asked about the possible expansion of the campaign in Gaza, the spokesman for the United States Department of the United States, Tammy Bruce, said Tuesday: “Informing is one thing. The real plans could be another. We are not in the business of interpreting statements of foreign governments when and if they are made.”
“We are still focused on releasing the hostages, including the remains of two Americans, and ensuring that Hamas never governs Gaza again,” Bruce said.