Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
WASHINGTON DC, 20th Jan. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday has said that Israel will maintain security control over the Gaza Strip after the ongoing conflict with Hamas ends
Israel will have “complete security control and control of whatever enters Gaza,” Netanyahu told a press conference in Tel Aviv.
He added that over the past two days, Israeli forces killed “dozens” of militants in the Palestinian enclave and destroyed rocket launchers, news media reported.
“The war continues on all fronts until we achieve total victory,” he said.
He added that the revised 582-billion-shekel (about $155 billion) wartime budget, which included an extra 55 billion shekels for defence, “enables the military to fulfill the goals of the war and achieve victory.”
Mr. Netanyahu said the war is likely to continue for “many months”.
Israel has been in war with Palestinian militant group Hamas which launched assaults in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and took over 250 hostages into Gaza.
According to the Gaza-based Health Ministry, the Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli strikes in retaliation has risen to 24,620.
