Ahead of the Security Cabinet meeting, which began Thursday and ran through the night, Prime Minister Netanyahu said Israel planned to retake control over the entire territory and eventually hand it off to friendly Arab forces opposed to Hamas.
However, he told Fox News Israel does “not want to keep it”.
Experts say the plan set to be approved today, which is believed to be opposed by parts of the Israeli military, would force more displacement and starvation – and could even see the imposition of Israeli settlers.
But the plan is believed to have faced opposition within the highest ranks of the IDF, due to the dangers posed to Israeli hostages, and the pressure it would place on strained military resources.
Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, removing troops and settlements, but maintained control over the Strip, including imposing a blockade.
Should the plan be confirmed, a full occupation could mean anything from short-term military control to the establishment of long-term Israeli settlements, experts said.
Meanwhile, Channel 12 reported that the plan would “begin with the conquest of Gaza City” and forcibly expelling its population, with the US expected to help Israel provide “humanitarian” logistics and “temporary civilian infrastructure”.
Palestinians walk through Shujaiyya, one of the largest and oldest neighborhoods in eastern Gaza City, which has been almost completely destroyed following months of Israeli attacks, on 3 August 2025. (Photo: Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Dr Ahron Bregman, an academic at King’s College London (KCL) who served for six years in the Israeli army, said a full occupation would likely take several months and involve further displacement of people.
“What the Israelis will probably try to do is to relocate the population, move them from place to place, so there’ll be a terrible suffering in terms of people having to leave their tents and go elsewhere,” he said.
Israel imposed a total blockade of aid deliveries to Gaza in early March before resuming its attacks on the Strip, ending a two-month ceasefire with Hamas.
Plans could pave way for settlers in Gaza
Several experts said that the operation could mark the start of a new long-term system in Gaza.
A group of far-right politicians and settlers discussed a plan, called “The master plan for settlement in the Gaza Strip”, last month.
Crowds form as Palestinians, including children, line up to receive food distributed by a charity (Photo: Abdalhkem Abu Riash/Anadolu via Getty Images)Omar Shakir, Israel Palestine director for Human Rights Watch, said the plan could see the prolonged presence of ground troops, the imposition of additional checkpoints and movement restrictions, as in the West Bank.
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Professor Yossi Mekelberg, senior consulting fellow at Chatham House, said that the new plan could mark the start of “the most extreme version” of Israeli war aims in Gaza, influenced by ultranationalists, “of occupying Gaza, rebuilding it at some point, and – not beyond the realm of possibility – implementing a plan of expelling maybe hundreds of thousands of people, maybe the entire population”.
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