Israel Plans Full Military Control of Gaza, Netanyahu Says

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โ€˜We want to liberate ourselves and liberate the people of Gaza from the awful terror of Hamas,โ€™ the Israeli prime minister said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Aug. 7 that Israel plans to establish full military control over the Gaza Strip, with the goal of eventually transferring authority to a local security force capable of governing the territory effectively, without the influence of Hamas.

In an interview with Fox News, Netanyahu was asked whether Israel would take control of the entire 26-mile-long coastal enclave.

โ€œWe intend to, in order to ensure our security, remove Hamas there,โ€ he responded.

Netanyahu said that once Hamas is removed, governance in Gaza would be handed over to civilian authorities not aligned with the terrorist group Hamas or groups seeking the destruction of Israel.

โ€œWe want to liberate ourselves and liberate the people of Gaza from the awful terror of Hamas,โ€ he said.

Netanyahu is expected to meet with his security cabinet on Thursday to direct the military on the next steps to meet his goals in Gaza.

Since the start of the Gaza conflict on Oct. 7, 2023, Netanyahu has said that Israelโ€™s goal is to defeat Hamas, release hostages taken from Israel, and ensure that Gaza would never again harbor a group like Hamas and pose a threat to Israeli security.

More than 700 civilians and around 380 Israeli security forces were killed during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack across southern Israel.

The Gaza Ministry of Health, which operates under the control of the Hamas terrorist group, reports that more than 60,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, but it does not distinguish between combatants and civilians and includes some deaths from natural causes. The Epoch Times cannot verify the casualty numbers.

Last week, at a U.N. conference in New York, representatives of 17 individual countries, the European Union, and the Arab League signed a declaration condemning Hamas, while supporting a Palestinian state.

โ€œGaza is an integral part of a Palestinian State and must be unified with the West Bank. There must be no occupation, siege, territorial reduction, or forced displacement,โ€ the declaration states.

โ€œGovernance, law enforcement and security across all Palestinian territory must lie solely with the Palestinian Authority, with appropriate international support.โ€

By Evgenia Filimianova and Ryan Morgan

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