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(NewsNation) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said connected Fox News that Israel does mean to instrumentality power of the Gaza Strip to region Hamas.
Netanyahu referred to the plan arsenic 1 to "liberate" the radical of Gaza and said it would "enable the colonisation to beryllium escaped of Hamas."
He besides said the eventual program would beryllium to crook implicit authorization to a civilian government.
His statements travel aft ceasefire talks faltered. The U.S. recently pulled retired of the negotiations, with peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff accusing Hamas of acting successful atrocious faith.
Recent photos showed the grade of demolition successful Gaza pursuing an Israeli subject run that began successful October 2023.
Humanitarian groups person warned of mass starvation owed to the demolition and simplification of assistance getting done to the territory, which has been nether Israeli blockade since 2007.
Netanyahu volition person to instrumentality the connection to his information council, which is acceptable to convene Thursday evening.
Expanding Israeli beingness successful Gaza would travel arsenic the planetary assemblage has enactment unit connected Israel to extremity the campaign. It would besides travel aft the United Kingdom, France and Canada announced they would admit a Palestinian state, thing most Western countries person not done.
Earlier successful the year, President Donald Trump suggested a imaginativeness for Gaza that would see the U.S. taking power of the territory, permanently relocating Palestinian residents and turning the country into 1 populated with resorts.
Just days ago, Trump stated that it would beryllium up to Israel to determine however overmuch of Gaza it wanted to control, a awesome that the U.S. would not enactment to halt Israeli concern of the Gaza Strip.
Around 50 hostages stay successful Gaza, held by Hamas, though galore of them are believed to beryllium nary longer alive. Families fear that those who are live could beryllium harmed by Hamas if Israeli subject enactment increases.
Netanyahu did not connection details of the plan, including the actions Israel would instrumentality militarily to summation power of the Gaza Strip oregon however agelong an concern could beryllium expected to last.
