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Israel announces plan to take over Gaza City in another escalation of the war

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Israel’s Security Cabinet approved a plan to take over Gaza City despite demands by families of hostages and mounting international calls for Israel to end the war.
Israel’s Security Cabinet approved a proposal early Friday for the military to expand the war in Gaza and take control of Gaza City, one of the last areas of the territory not yet under full military occupation.
The Security Cabinet’s meeting ran well into the night in Israel, concluding with an outline for the military to eventually control all of the territory.
The announcement from the prime minister’s office comes some 23 months into a war in which Israeli airstrikes and attacks have killed at least 61,000 Palestinians, a third of them children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Gaza City — long the beating heart of Gaza — has been largely destroyed from airstrikes and raids throughout the war. Still, it’s home to several of the territory’s last partially-functioning hospitals, a church where Gaza’s minority Christians are sheltering and where tens of thousands of displaced people have set up tent encampments.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office stopped short of describing the takeover of Gaza City as an occupation, though the U.N. says already nearly 90% of Gaza is under military control or off-limits to Palestinians and deemed a red zone.

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