DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, In an interview with Fox News, Israeli PM says Israel wants to take control – but not govern – the Strip.Correction Aug. 7, 2025: This article originally stated that Netanyahu wanted to hand Gaza over to armed forces. He said Arab forces.In an interview with Fox News, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel intends to take control of the entire Strip, but does not want to govern it.His comments came on Thursday shortly before Israel’s cabinet meets to consider his proposal to take over the Strip.“We intend to [take over] in order to ensure our security, remove Hamas [from] 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,” he said.He said in the interview that Israel wants a security perimeter, and that they want to hand it over to Arab forces to govern Gaza.“We don’t want to keep it. 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.”The Israeli security cabinet meeting comes as international outrage over the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza has ratcheted up pressure on Israel, with UN agencies warning of famine in the devastated territory.Gaza’s hospitals have recorded four new deaths “due to famine and malnutrition over the past 24 hours”, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry, raising t …
