Netanyahu directs Israeli forces to expand Gaza control to 70 percent

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Issued on:29/05/2026 - 12:02 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he had directed Israel's military to take more of Gaza, initially by seizing 70% of the Palestinian territory, where the population is already penned into a tiny strip of land along the coast. Israel effectively controls an estimated 64% of the tiny coastal ​Strip, bombarded to ‌ruins by Israel's two-year military assault that followed the 2023 Hamas attack on southern Israel. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Editor Kethevane Gorjestani tells us more. Headings To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Issued on:29/05/2026 - 12:02 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he had directed Israel's military to take more of Gaza, initially by seizing 70% of the Palestinian territory, where the population is already penned into a tiny strip of land along the coast. Israel effectively controls an estimated 64% of the tiny coastal ​Strip, bombarded to ‌ruins by Israel's two-year military assault that followed the 2023 Hamas attack on southern Israel. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Editor Kethevane Gorjestani tells us more. © 2026 Copyright France 24 - All rights reserved. France 24 is not responsible for the content of external websites. Audience ratings certified by ACPM.ACPM The content you requested does not exist or is not available anymore.