What was Netanyahu’s map and ‘plan for Gaza’ all about?
Al Jazeera
Israeli prime minister presented a plan and map that showed an annexed West Bank and Gaza under Israeli army control.
On September 2, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went on TV to talk about the war on Gaza.
After the Palestinian group Hamas led an operation on October 7, during which 1,139 people in Israel died and another 250 or so were taken captive, Israel launched a war on Gaza, killing more than 40,000 Palestinians there.
International and internal pressure has built on Netanyahu to come to a ceasefire agreement that would see the Israeli captives returned in exchange for an end to the fighting and a release of Palestinians prisoners.
But Netanyahu’s news conference signalled that he had no intent of agreeing to a ceasefire.
Instead, he presented a plan for the future of Palestine. Here’s all you need to know about it: