“Gaza’s humanitarian space is further shrinking,” said the EU commissioner for humanitarian aid and crisis management.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that he had directed the Israeli military to take over 70 percent of the Gaza strip. In comments at a conference hosted by a “pre-military” academy in an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank, Netanyahu said that his “directive is to move to… take [Gaza] step by step… first of all 70 percent.” “One hundred! One hundred!”…

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