Palestinians in territory ‘will never be able to come close to the Israeli border’, says minister
Israel's foreign minister Eli Cohen: 'At the end of this war, not only will Hamas no longer be in Gaza, but the territory of Gaza will also decrease.' Photograph: Mazen Mahdi/AFP via Getty Imagestargets in Gaza since the Palestinian militant group carried out a devastating attack on Israel almost two weeks ago, and is widely expected to launch a ground operation in the territory.
“It’s not that you started it from inside the Gaza Strip, as a buffer zone. You started it on the Israeli side – 50 to 100 metres inside... We understand it was a mistake, it has to be fixed,” he told a media briefing in Sderot. Mr Dichter said the width of any future buffer zone would have to be decided “according to the area, the needs of the military, according to the distance of the Israeli military or the Israeli settlements”.
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