Israeli Press
Shin Bet chief calls the Gaza roadmap a Hamas strategic ambush
Graphic: Times of Palestine
Original Reporting
Shin Bet chief David Zini has reportedly branded the Gaza roadmap "a strategic ambush by Hamas," as Israeli officials discuss openly defying the framework by resuming strikes on the territory, the Times of Israel reported Thursday in its live coverage.
National Security Adviser Shmuel Ben Ezra said Israel handed the United States a list of corrections it demands to the document. Netanyahu, in the same telling, argues the roadmap contradicts understandings his government reached with Washington in November 2025.
The security establishment's accusation, as the paper relays it, is that Hamas is buying time — using the quiet to recover from two years of war, rearm and recruit. That reading turns every clause about stored weapons and phased withdrawal into a trap in Israeli eyes.
The same coverage carried the opposite signal within hours. An official involved in the effort saw "steps in the right direction" as Israel curbed its strikes, evidence the American pressure that produced the roadmap is still restraining the escalation option.
The two voices — an intelligence chief calling the deal an ambush, an official praising its early steps — ran side by side on the same Israeli news pages. Between them sits the decision Israel's security cabinet met Thursday evening to make.
