[Today's Prayer] Israeli Cabinet Approves Gaza Operation Expansion… "Including Occupation of Territory"

The Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, and other media outlets reported on the 5th (local time) that the Israeli Security Cabinet approved an expansion of the Gaza operation targeting the Palestinian armed group Hamas.

At a Security Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the night before, the ministers unanimously approved the plan for the 'Chariot of Gideon' operation with these contents.

The operation plan presented by Israeli Army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir is known to include the idea of ​​the Israeli military occupying the Gaza Strip and maintaining its territory. However, it is known that Zamir also expressed concerns that Israeli hostages could be put at risk if fighting escalates.

Prime Minister Netanyahu said at the meeting that "the operation that the military will launch in Gaza will also include military control of the area," and that "this will allow us to achieve both war goals of defeating Hamas and returning the hostages."

The Security Cabinet also approved a motion to mobilize additional reserve forces needed for the new operation. Accordingly, the Israeli military is expected to expand its military operation in Gaza after increasing its forces around next week.

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The Security Cabinet also approved a plan to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza. This plan is designed to prevent Hamas from controlling supplies and to undermine Hamas' ability to rule.

In relation to this, a Defense Ministry official explained that the aid delivery will begin only after a large number of Palestinian residents in northern Gaza are evacuated to the south.

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Meanwhile, the Israeli military announced that it had destroyed a rocket launcher in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, the day before, from which Hamas was preparing to attack Israel.

Source: Yonhap News

But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it. (Numbers 14:24)

We hear that the plan to occupy Gaza and maintain the territory has become a reality as the Israeli security cabinet has approved the expansion of the Gaza operation targeting Hamas.

As Hamas controls supplies and prevents humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, the Gaza residents who are facing starvation are evacuated en masse to the south, and relief supplies are expected to begin to be delivered, we pray that the Lord will make everything go well for them.

Please let the relief supplies be delivered quickly so that the hunger of the souls in Gaza can be resolved first, and above all, let the gospel be preached first so that the grace of salvation through Yeshua, the giver of life, can fill the entire Gaza Strip.

We believe that the Lord has heard the prayers of the global church that have been built up until the deep conflict between Israel and Palestine has been filled.

Would you accept the prayers of those who have served all over the world, believing in the covenant of the faithful God, and raise up servants of the Lord like Caleb in Israel and Palestine.

May you give Israel and Palestine to those who served the people with the heart of Jesus Christ, prayed, and followed the word completely, not to those who tried to obtain the territory of Israel and Palestine through war and terrorism, and let them possess it soon.

Please allow the Lord, who works beyond what is seen with human eyes, to grant Israel and Palestine an unchanging rock-like community of faith and make it a refuge where the souls of Gaza can recover their spirits and bodies.

Therefore, please grant the power of life that overcomes death to Israel and Palestine, and let disciples like Caleb arise who will go beyond Israel and Palestine to gain the Arabs and the nations through obedience alone!