Pro-Israel Democrats in Congress were divided on Friday over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to take military control of Gaza City, with views ranging from support to skepticism to condemnation.

Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) called the decision “tactically questionable and strategically self-defeating.”

“If implemented, the decision is more likely to play into Hamas’s original objectives in starting this war and further unite much of the world against Israel than it is to bring home the last surviving hostages and advance the security needs of the nation,” Schneider said.

The Israeli Security Cabinet voted by a “decisive majority” on Friday to order the Israel Defense Forces to prepare “taking control of Gaza City, while distributing humanitarian assistance to the civi

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