Israel divides Gaza to force Hamas to deliver hostages

The Israeli Prime Minister announced Wednesday that the army is dividing the Gaza Strip and increasing the pressure on the Palestinian Movement Hamas. The goal is to oblige the terrorist group to deliver the hostages.

« We are dividing the Gaza Strip (in installments) and increasing the step by step pressure, so that they (Hamas) will return our hostages, » said Benjamin Netanyahu in a video released by his office.

« The army is taking territory, attacking terrorists and destroying infrastructure, » he added. Netanyahu also announced the creation of a new axis under Israeli control to separate the cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

« And the less they give in, the more the pressure will increase until they do it, » Netanyahu said over Hamas, which still holds 59 captive hostages in Gaza.

According to Israeli Prime Minister, the Army occupied the “Morag Corridor”, a track that crosses the Palestinian territory from East to West over the city of Rafah, to share southern Enclave, as he did in the center, with the Netzarim corridor.

Netanyahu stated that Morag will turn into a “second () Philadelphia corridor”, a reference to the territory that separates the Gaza Strip from Egypt, occupied by Israelites troops, whose indefinite permanence defends there.

The Morag corridor, named after an Israeli settler in Gaza (dismantled during the 2005 unilateral removal plan), is above the city of Rafah, thus isolating it from the other large southern city of Enclave, Khan Yunis.

Thus, Israel controls in the Gaza Strip three corridors, with which the Palestinian territory cut: the Netzarim corridor, which isolates the North and the city of Gaza; The Morag corridor, which covers the center of the track and the southern city of Khan Yunis; and the Philadelphia corridor, the southern boundary of the Enclave, on which Rafah was cornered.