Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to fully occupy the Gaza Strip, according to multiple reports .

Israel's security cabinet has approved plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the Israeli military to occupy Gaza City, in an expansion of military operations that comes amid international condemnation of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly been weighing a full-scale occupation of the Gaza Strip in meetings with cabinet

Asked about Netanyahu’s claim there was no hunger in Gaza, he pointed at Jamal’s protruding rib cage. “Of course there’s famine,” he said. “Does a 5-year-old child’s chest normally come to look like this?”

With turnout less than half of war's start, some are losing patience: 'This war is entirely political,' says one, arguing PM's political survival is what drives decisions

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserted that Israel's goal was not to occupy Gaza, but to "free Gaza."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country intends to conquer all of the Gaza Strip in order to oust Hamas from the territory in a Thursday Fox News interview. Netanyahu told Fox News’ Bill Hemmer that Israel will aim to temporarily occupy the Gaza Strip in order to “liberate” the residents from Hamas.

Conquering Gaza is a bad operational idea, a bad moral idea and a bad economic idea,” said Yair Lapid, the Israeli opposition leader.

New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has criticized his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu in unusually harsh terms, calling the latest attacks in the Gaza Strip "utterly, utterly unacceptable.