Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
We're beginning with the Israeli Prime Minister's plan to take control of the entire Gaza Strip,
using his military to occupy it.
The plan was given formal approval by his Cabinet after an unusually long meeting.
It lasted 10 hours and stretched right through the night.
This was how the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,
laid out his vision ahead of that Cabinet meeting.
in an interview with Fox News' Bill Hemmer.
Will Israel take control of all of Gaza?
We intend to, in order to assure our security, remove Hamas 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.
In the first instance,
we're told the army will be ordered to launch a full-scale incursion into Gaza City,
currently home to almost a half of the enclave's two million-plus Palestinians.
Those hundreds of thousands of Gazans, many of whom have already been multiply displaced,
will be told to move once more,
to move south to where the rest of Gaza's population is already crammed.