Netanyahu clarifies that he is not attempting to “govern Gaza.”

After Israel’s war against Hamas, Benjamin Netanyahu has said that his country does not plan to conquer, occupy, or rule Gaza; however, he has acknowledged that a “credible force” might have to enter Palestinian territory in order to stop militant threats from emerging.

The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) declared on Thursday that it had targeted a group in Syria that was in charge of a drone that had struck a school in the southern Israeli city of Eilat. The Syrian regime is fully accountable to the IDF for all acts of terrorism that originate on its soil.

Israeli airstrikes, according to Palestinian officials, targeted or passed over at least three hospitals on Friday. This puts additional strain on the fragile healthcare system in the Palestinian territory, which is already trying to handle thousands of injured or displaced people from Israel’s war against Hamas militants. There have been no obvious indications that Israel is carrying out the four-hour humanitarian pauses that the White House said it would start implementing in northern Gaza to allow people to evacuate. According to the Israeli military, it will keep allowing “tactical, local pauses” to allow supplies to enter Gaza.

On November 9, a demonstration was held in Tel Aviv outside the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) headquarters in Israel by healthcare professionals, hostage families, and supporters. The demonstrators demanded that the organisation grant them access to visit and treat the hostages who are still being held inside Gaza. The Palestinian economy is depicted starkly in a UN report following a month of fighting and Israel’s almost complete siege of Gaza.