Israeli tanks surround Gaza border as 400k troops mobilised for ‘full occupation’ in WEEKS,
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aims to completely flush out terrorists from the besieged enclave after vowing to "free Gaza from Hamas". The plan would see the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) expand the war and fully take over the Gaza City and some of the central camps - the last few parts of the strip not under Israeli control. This would allow Israel - which currently controls roughly 70 per cent of Gaza - to establish a full military occupation in the strip. Netanyahu claims these parts of Gaza - home to well over half a million Palestinians - are the last remaining Hamas strongholds. His government has now granted Defence Minister Israel Katz permission to call up some 430,000 military reservists until November 30.
