Israel’s security cabinet backed Prime Minister Netanyahu’s plan to militarily occupy Gaza City and impose a siege on Hamas fighters, Al Jazeera reports.

As part of the hours-long meeting on Thursday night, the cabinet also agreed in a majority vote upon “five principles” for ending its deadly assault on Gaza, according to a statement from Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office.

Those principles are:

• The disarming of Hamas
• The return of all the captives — the living and the deceased
• The demilitarisation of the Gaza Strip
• Israeli security control in the Gaza Strip
• The establishment of an alternative civil administration that is neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority