Overview

• Netanyahu convened a security cabinet meeting on August 7 to consider a phased takeover of Gaza beginning with Gaza City.
• Phase one of the plan would issue evacuation orders for about one million residents to establish hospitals and camps in central Gaza.
• IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and the Hostages Families Forum have pushed back over threats to remaining captives and a potential prolonged insurgency.
• The military says it already controls about 75 percent of Gaza and recently demolished a two-kilometer Hamas tunnel in Khan Yunis.
• International bodies such as the EU and UN caution that a lack of secure corridors and the blockade continue to stall large-scale aid delivery.