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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says military seeks full control of Gaza-Egypt border
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-31/gaza-israel-egypt-border-control/103275364?
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
If accomplished, such a move would mark a de facto reversal of Israel’s 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, placing the enclave under exclusive Israeli control after years being run by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
Mr Netanyahu’s comments about the buffer zone came as Israeli military forces pressed ahead with an offensive that the prime minister reiterated would last “for many more months”.
Fighting was focused in al-Bureij, Nuseirat, Maghazi and Khan Younis, according to residents, and was backed by intensive air strikes that filled hospitals with wounded Palestinians.
The conflict risks spreading across the region, drawing in Iran-aligned groups in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen, that have exchanged fire with Israel and its US ally, or targeted merchant shipping.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad — both sworn to Israel’s destruction — said in separate statements their fighters had destroyed and damaged several Israeli tanks and troop carriers in attacks across Gaza on Saturday.
Israel’s stated aim is to destroy Hamas and while the US has called for it to scale down the war and move to targeted operations against the group’s leaders, so far it shows no sign of doing so.
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