The Israeli war in the Gaza Strip, in which more than 36,000 Palestinians have already died, will last until at least 2025 and Israeli troops will not leave the enclave To prevent “arms smuggling,” Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said today.

“We still have seven months of struggle to achieve what we define as “destruction of Hamas government and military capabilities.” Hanegbi said this in a telephone interview from Cyprus to public radio. Khan.

On May 6, Israel launched a ground offensive against Rafah.the last “safe” enclave in Gaza and where the army says four Hamas battalions have yet to be disbanded. Since then, more than a million Gazans have been forcibly displaced as troops reached the city center of Rafah from the eastern side.

“In the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces They now control 75% of the Philadelphia Corridor. and I think that over time they will control all of this,” Hanegbi said, confirming the latest troop movements in this strategic strip that delimits the Gaza Strip from Egypt.

According to the adviser, Israel is seeking, together with the Egyptian authorities, mitigate “arms smuggling” from Egypt to the Gaza Strip, implying that the troops will not leave the place once they begin to dominate it militarily.

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“We must close the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. No one will offer to protect us, and we will have to defend ourselves,” Hanegbi said in the Hazet Hayom program hosted by Esti Perez Ben-Ami.

(EFE)