Benjamin Netanyahu's plan for Israel to take full military control of the Gaza Strip has been condemned, amid fears a reoccupation could put the lives of Palestinians and the remaining Israeli hostages at risk.

Asked in a Fox News interview on Thursday if Israel would "take control of all of Gaza", the prime minister replied: "We intend to, in order to assure our security, remove Hamas there, enable the population to be free of Gaza."

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"We don't want to keep it. We want to have a security perimeter," he continued. "We want to hand it over to Arab forces that will govern it properly without threatening us and giving Gazans a good life."

Israel already controls around 75% of Gaza and has largely sealed its borders.

To take full control, it would

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