By Mariane Angela, Daily Caller News Foundation | May 05, 2025
Brit Hume warned on Fox News Monday that Israel may soon be forced into a drastic shift in strategy as the war against Hamas drags on with no end in sight. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Monday to launch an “intensive” expanded offensive against Hamas after his security cabinet approved plans that could include seizing the Gaza Strip and controlling humanitarian aid. During an appearance on “Special Report with Bret Baier,” Hume suggested Israel may no longer see an alternative to reasserting control in Gaza.
“The president himself obviously would like to have some progress toward the release of the hostages and the other remaining issues with Hamas. But that remains up in the air as well with the possibility now existing that the Israelis are going to do what they stopped doing in 2005. When they got out of Gaza, they occupied the place, as you recall, Bret, for a long time, and the Israelis pulled out in 2005,” Hume said. “That didn’t stop Hamas from complaining bitterly about the continued occupation, which was no more. But here we are after all this, and it looks like Israel could be back in Gaza and taking charge of the place. Wow.”
Hume described the current crisis as a boiling point, as Iran-backed Houthis continue launching missile attacks.
Mariane Angela is a news reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation
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