{"id":464695,"date":"2026-05-28T17:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/464695\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T17:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:06:10","slug":"benjamin-netanyahu-gives-israel-order-to-take-70-of-gaza-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/464695\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Netanyahu gives Israel order to take 70% of Gaza Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel controls over half of the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-897374\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> said during the Jordan Valley Conference on Thursday, adding that he has given the order for Israel to take even more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;Israel controls 60% of the Gaza Strip,&#8221; he said. &#8220;My directive &#8211; 70%. We&#8217;ll start there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The comments come a day after the\u00a0IDF struck two senior Hamas commanders in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-897574\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gaza Strip<\/a> on Wednesday evening, targeting northern Gaza brigade commander Ezz al-Din Beik and Gaza City deputy brigade commander Imad Aslim, who also serves as commander of the Zeitoun Battalion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The strike was carried out while the two were reportedly meeting in the same apartment after emerging from Hamas\u2019s underground tunnel network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Israeli security officials are still awaiting final confirmation that both Hamas commanders had been killed.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu also confirmed that Israeli troops crossed the Litani River during operations in southern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/lebanon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lebanon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;Now we attacked in Beirut, we attacked Tyre yesterday, our forces crossed the Litani, we are striking them and will strike them very hard,&#8221; Netanyahu stated.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amir Bohbot and Yonah Jeremy Bob contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel controls over half of the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during the Jordan Valley Conference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33437,69,42,1031,88,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-464695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-beirut","tag-gaza-strip","tag-headlines","tag-idf","tag-lebanon","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}