Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel plans to take over all of Gaza as the country escalates its offensive in the war-torn enclave, pounding the strip with air strikes and issuing an evacuation order for one of its largest cities.
The Israeli military on Monday told all residents of the southern city of Khan Younis — the territory’s second-biggest before the war — to leave, demanding they move west to the so-called al-Mawasi “humanitarian zone” ahead of what it called an “unprecedented attack” on the city.
The aim of the expanded Israeli campaign was “to take over all of the territory of Gaza” in a bid to fully defeat Hamas, Netanyahu said in a video on Monday.