Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that the Israeli military intends to take over the war-torn Gaza Strip, arguing it was necessary to do so for his country's security.

The Israeli leader, in an interview with Fox News, said the takeover of Gaza is intended to “assure our security, remove Hamas there, enable the population to be free of Gaza and to pass it to civilian governance that is not Hamas and not anyone advocating the destruction of Israel."

Netanyahu insisted any Israeli takeover would not be permanent, saying it could be handed over to "Arab forces" at some point.

“We want to have a security perimeter. We don’t want to govern it. We don’t want to be there as a governing body. We want to hand it over to Arab forces that will govern it properly without th

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