Netanyahu says Israel will take control of 70 per cent of Gaza

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has directed the country's military to seize 70 per cent of the Gaza Strip, where the population is already ‌penned into a tiny enclave of land along the coast. Under a truce brokered by the US in October last year, Israeli troops were meant to withdraw to a "Yellow Line" that put Israel in control of 53 per cent of the Gaza Strip. Reuters has reported that Israel has unilaterally moved the concrete blocks marking the Yellow Line on the ground deeper into Hamas-controlled territory. Israel effectively controls an estimated 64 per cent of the Palestinian territory, bombarded to ruins by Israel's more than two-year-long military assault that followed the ‌2023 Hamas attack on southern Israel. Israeli strikes have killed more than 900 people since the truce, health officials say, while Israel says four soldiers were killed by militants during the same period. Israel and Hamas remain deadlocked in talks to advance a US plan for the Gaz

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