Israeli PM says he's directed military to take more of Gaza under its control

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he had directed Israel's military to take more of Gaza, initially by seizing ‌70 per cent of the Palestinian territory, where the population is already penned into a tiny strip of land along the coast.

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