The Israeli government voted today to expand its military operations in Gaza, a plan that could

end with the reoccupation of the Strip, nearly 20 years after Israel ended its occupation there.

Meantime, humanitarian officials warn an Israeli plan to take over aid distribution in Gaza

is unworkable and more Palestinians will suffer.

Israel has blocked all aid from entering for over two months now.

Here's Nick Schifrin.

In the shadow of Gaza today, Israel has its eyes on a bigger prize.

Tens of thousands of reservists are mobilizing to execute a new plan that calls for Israeli troops to clear large parts of Gaza and hold captured territory, says spokesman David Menser.

The expanding and the holding of territories, not occupation, the expanding and holding of territories, and remaining in them to prevent Hamas from taking it back.

The plan was unanimously approved overnight by the Israeli cabinet, including far-right finance minister Bezalos Moultrich.

We are finally going to conquer the Gaza Strip.

We are no longer afraid of the word occupation.

Today, Israel is believed to control about one-third of Gaza,

with an expanded buffer zone along the Gaza border and two corridors that bisect Gaza.

The new plan calls for Israeli troops to move the population of northern Gaza to the south,

to what army spokesman General Effie Deferring today called a, quote, sterile area.

The operation will include a broad offensive that includes moving a majority of the population of the Gaza Strip.

This is in order to protect it in a sterile area from Hamas. We will

repeat the model carried out in Rafa in other areas of the Gaza Strip.

After Israel's operation last year, this is what Rafa looked like. Israeli officials

say the new operation would take about two weeks to prepare, giving enough time for President

Trump to travel to

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