The Israeli defense minister says his country’s troops will stay in “security zones” in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely, after Israel unilaterally expanded its frontiers in the war unleashed by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
Israel says it needs to hold on to the zones to prevent similar attacks, but the takeovers appear to meet the dictionary definition of military occupation.
This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the town of Khuzaa, east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip in Oct., 2023. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC
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