ISRAEL is set to mobilise more than 400,000 troops as it plans to establish a full military occupation in the Gaza Strip.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aims to completely flush out terrorists from the besieged enclave after vowing to "free Gaza from Hamas" .

The plan would see the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) expand the war and fully take over the Gaza City and some of the central camps - the last few parts of the strip not under Israeli control.

This would allow Israel - which currently controls roughly 70 per cent of Gaza - to establish a full military occupation in the strip .

Netanyahu claims these parts of Gaza - home to well over half a million Palestinians - are the last remaining Hamas strongholds .

His government has now granted Defence Minister Israel Katz per

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