Full Analysis Summary
Condition for Rafah opening
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Gaza, has tied progress on the ceasefire's second phase to exhaustive efforts to recover the bodies of remaining Israeli captives.
He said Israeli forces have not finished the first phase and will continue working to recover the last three bodies.
Netanyahu said the Rafah crossing will be opened only for Palestinians to leave Gaza after that body-recovery phase is complete.
This framing makes the recovery of Israeli remains and captives the immediate precondition for easing restrictions on movement through Rafah.
Netanyahu on Gaza plans
Netanyahu described the proposed international force's mandate as focused on dismantling Hamas and disarming the Gaza Strip.
He said that wording was linked to United Nations Security Council framing and to a plan by U.S. President Donald Trump.
He added that the United States seeks a test deployment of such a force, while Israel has warned any timeline would not be open-ended.
Netanyahu credited the Israeli army's incursion into Gaza City with enabling the prisoners' release and characterized the violent phase of the war as over for now while explicitly leaving open the option to resume fighting if needed.
Rafah access and Israeli conditions
Netanyahu's stance links humanitarian movement through Rafah to Israeli security and body-recovery operations.
Under this approach, Rafah would be opened only for Palestinians to leave - not to enter or for full humanitarian re-entry - and only after Israel says it has exhausted efforts to recover remains and confirm the status of captives.
That condition effectively prioritizes Israeli objectives, recovering bodies and securing captives, over unfettered humanitarian access or return, according to Al-Jazeera's reporting.
Ceasefire and legal context
Al-Jazeera’s account presents a stark political and legal context: Netanyahu remains wanted by the ICC for alleged war crimes in Gaza while conditioning progress on the ceasefire and movement policy on recovery operations and security guarantees.
The reporting links high-level diplomacy, including a U.S. push for an international force and UN Security Council framing, with Israeli operational priorities on the ground.
This creates a sequence in which Israeli military action and body recovery will determine whether humanitarian corridors and the Rafah crossing are meaningfully opened.
Source limitations and gaps
The provided material is a single-source summary from Al-Jazeera Net, so critical perspectives, Palestinian eyewitness testimony, other regional actors’ statements, and independent humanitarian assessments are missing here.
Because of the single-source constraint, I cannot reliably identify contradictions across source types (West Asian vs Western mainstream vs Western alternative) or measure differences in tone beyond what Al-Jazeera reports.
Any further comparative analysis would require additional source material.