Israel said it will cut ‘the umbilical cord’ with Gaza to create ‘a new security reality’ and block all crossings after annihilating Hamas in a ground invasion.
The Israeli military on Friday punished Gaza with airstrikes and authorities inched closer to bringing aid to desperate families and hospitals.
Israel will enforce a buffer zone within the Gaza Strip once the war is over, Israel’s agriculture minister Avi Dichter said on Thursday.
In comments that seemed to refer to setting up a buffer zone in the coastal strip, Israel’s foreign minister Eli Cohen said on Wednesday that ‘at the end of this war, not only will Hamas no longer be in Gaza, but the territory of Gaza will also decrease’.
Asked about these remarks and the possibility of setting up a buffer zone inside Gaza, Dichter said that the current situation, in which most of Israel’s border security infrastructure was several hundred metres inside Israeli territory, was no longer tenable.





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