![An aerial view of Gaza City as the efforts to drop humanitarian aid supplies through parachute by military cargo planes into the city continues on August 6, 2025. [Salaheddin Mohamad - Anadolu Agency]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/AA-20250806-38760858-38760839-HUMANITARIAN_AID_SUPPLIES_DROPPED_BY_AIR_INTO_GAZA-1.jpg)
To say that Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had lost the plot is to assume he ever had one. With a dearth of ideas as to how to come up with a “final solution” to the Palestinian problem, he has received a majority approval from his cabinet colleagues to take over Gaza City. It took a late-night meeting with the security cabinet lasting some ten hours. A statement released on the morning of 8 August from his office mentioned a five-point plan intended to defeat Hamas and conclude the war. None of this is an improved version of what has come before: the intended disarming of Hamas, the return of all hostages, demilitarising the Gaza Strip, assuming security control of […]
