Day 674 - What would Israel's legal duties be in a Gaza City takeover?

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🗓️ 10 August 2025

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Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.

Legal and settlements reporter Jeremy Sharon joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir on Friday vowed to carry out “in the best possible way” Israel’s decision to conquer Gaza City and at the same time, Arab mediators were said to be working on a deal to release all 50 remaining hostages from Gaza in one fell swoop in exchange for an end to the war and full Israeli withdrawal from the Strip. In the lead-up to the security cabinet decision, there was a lot of talk about conquering and occupying the entire Strip. Sharon looked into the legalities of such a move and shares what he found.

Hundreds of ultranationalist activists hoping to establish new Israeli settlements in Gaza set out Wednesday evening from a spot close to the Gaza border city of Sderot and began walking westward toward a lookout point less than a kilometer away from the Strip, with loudspeakers blaring: “The way to defeat Hamas is to take back our land.” Sharon gives us background on the impetus for the movement and, with increased political backing, the window of opportunity it now sees.

Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing liveblog for more updates.

For further reading:

IDF chief: Army will carry out Gaza City occupation plan in ‘best possible way’

‘Ours forever’: Hundreds march from Sderot to Gaza border to demand resettlement

Smotrich says he’s ‘lost faith’ in PM’s desire to win war, demands change to Gaza plans

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IMAGE: Palestinians rush to collect humanitarian aid airdropped by parachutes into Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, August 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing.
0:06.3	Today is Sunday, August 10th, day 674 of the war.
0:11.8	Amanda Borchelle, Dan, here with our legal and settlement reporter, Jeremy Sharon.
0:16.6	Hi, Jeremy.
0:17.6	Thanks so much for joining me today.
0:18.7	Hey, Amanda, good to be with you.
0:20.2	Good to see you. We are going to start the program with an update on the war plan adopted by the government on Thursday night to occupy Gaza City.
0:29.8	We'll turn the discussion to the legality of an eventual potential occupation of the entire Gaza Strip.
0:37.2	We're going to learn about the growing movement to resettle Gush Katif,
0:41.8	25 years after the disengagement and pull out from the Israeli enclave in the Gaza Strip.
0:48.3	All of this and more when we're back.
0:55.6	To me, it seems like they're more with dead shoes than they are with living
0:59.0	Jews.
0:59.6	But what about the living choose?
1:01.7	What about people like me?
1:03.5	What about people that feel like they cannot even walk safely in their own streets?
1:08.0	Hi, I'm Manya Marcus, host of what came after. Recently, nearly 50 French
1:13.3	Jewish summer campers were removed from their flight in Spain, allegedly only for singing in Hebrew.
1:19.5	It's undeniable. Antisemitism in Western Europe is surging. So what I always say is that
1:25.3	not only we're part of that European continent, but we're
1:28.3	the future, we should be the future.
1:30.3	In our latest episode, I speak with Juan Caldez of the European Jewish Association.
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