Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on Thursday that he had directed Israel’s military to take over 70% of Gaza’s territory.
During an interview at a convention in the occupied West Bank, Netanyahu stated that Israel is “tightening” its grip on Hamas. “We are now in 60% of the territory of the Gaza Strip. We were at 50%, we moved to 60%,” he stated. “My directive is to move to – take it step by step – first of all 70. Let’s start with that.” As Netanyahu spoke, the viewers known as for him to take over all of Gaza’s territory.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued maps to worldwide help teams in late-April which already confirmed the military already controlling roughly 64% of Gaza.
The seizure of extra of Gaza would pressure roughly 2 million Palestinians right into a shrinking fraction of the coastal enclave’s shattered territory.
Under the October 2025 ceasefire settlement between Israel and Hamas, Israeli forces withdrew to a demarcation line generally known as the “yellow line” which encompassed roughly 53% of Gaza.
On Tuesday, Hamas accused Israel of shifting the line, saying this “constitutes an explicit and ongoing undermining of the ceasefire agreement, a serious violation of its provisions, and an exposed attempt to impose new facts on the ground by force, with the aim of entrenching military control over the Strip and undermining any real chance of stabilizing the situation or making de-escalation efforts succeed.”
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