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Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize 70 percent of Gaza

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · · 67 words
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Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize 70 percent of Gaza Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize 70 percent of Gaza Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has ordered the military to take control of 70 percent of the Gaza Strip, in defiance of the…

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Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize 70 percent of Gaza Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize 70 percent of Gaza Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has ordered the military to take control of 70 percent of the Gaza Strip, in defiance of the…

Why it matters

Netanyahu said Israeli forces already control around 60 percent of the Palestinian territory.

Common ground

The clearest point to anchor on is this: Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize 70 percent of Gaza.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 3 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize 70 percent of Gaza”
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Multiple independent sources, including France24 and several web search results dated May 28, 2026, explicitly report that Prime Minister Netanyahu ordered the military to take control of 70 percent of the Gaza Strip.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu (Hebrew: יוֹנָתָן "יוֹנִי" נְתַנְיָהוּ, pronounced [jonaˈtan ˈjoni netanˈjahu]; March 13, 1946 – July 4, 1976) was an Israeli military officer who commanded Sayeret Matkal dur…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonatan_Netanyahu
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician and diplomat who has served as Prime Minister of Israel since 2022. Having previously held office from 1996 to 1999 and from 2…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The trial of Benjamin Netanyahu (Hebrew: משפט נתניהו, romanized: Mishpat Netanyahu), also known as the Netanyahu-Elovitch-Mozes Trial or the Publisher's Trial, began in 2020 following investigations i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Benjamin_Netanyahu
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Claim 2: “Netanyahu said Israeli forces already control around 60 percent of the Palestinian territory”
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Multiple web search results from May 28, 2026, report that Netanyahu's comments included the detail that Israeli forces already control roughly 60 percent of the Gaza Strip.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In 2005, Israel disengaged from the Gaza Strip by dismantling all 21 Israeli settlements there. Nonetheless, the Gaza Strip has continued to be regarded by the United Nations, many other internationa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_the…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Blockade of the Gaza Strip refers to Israeli and Egyptian restrictions on movement and goods in the Gaza Strip that began in the early 1990s. After Hamas took over in 2007, Israel significantly in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Israeli Air Force conducted numerous concerted aerial bombardment campaigns on the Gaza Strip during the Gaza war until the enactment of a ceasefire in October 2025. Since then, less frequent stri…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_bombing_of_the_Gaza_St…
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Claim 3: “in defiance of the October 2025 ceasefire agreement”
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Wikipedia and the Council on Foreign Relations both confirm that a ceasefire agreement (part of the Gaza peace plan) came into effect in October 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza peace plan, officially the Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict, is a multilateral agreement between Israel and Hamas that aims to address the ongoing Gaza war and broader Middle Easte…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_peace_plan
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 19, 2025 ... October marks two years since the war in Gaza began. Looking back at the 7 October attack launched by Hamas and other armed groups on Israel, ...
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/october-2025-monthly-bul…
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