TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel announced Saturday it had completed construction of a new security corridor cutting off the southern city of Rafah from the rest of Gaza, and the military said it would soon expand “vigorously” in most of the small coastal territory.
“Activity will expand rapidly to additional locations throughout most of Gaza and you will have to evacuate the fighting zones,” Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement, without saying where Palestinians were meant to go.
The statement urged Palestinians to remove Hamas and release the remaining hostages, saying: “This is the only way to stop the war.”
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Israeli troops were deployed last week to the new security corridor referred to as Morag, the name of a Jewish settlement that once
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