Netanyahu directs Israeli forces to expand Gaza control to 70 percent • FRANCE 24 English

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he had directed Israel's military to take more of Gaza, initially by seizing 70% of the Palestinian territory, where the population is already penned into a tiny strip of land along the coast. Israel effectively controls an estimated 64% of the tiny coastal ​Strip, bombarded to ‌ruins by Israel's two-year military assault that followed the 2023 Hamas attack on southern Israel. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Editor Kethevane Gorjestani tells us more.
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