Speaking at a news conference, the Israeli leader says the Philadelphi Corridor – the border area between Gaza and Egypt – “must be in our hands”.
“It must be shut. It is clear that any other arrangement would not ensure the demilitarisation that we seek,” he said. The area is currently controlled by Egypt.
He added a rare threat to attack Iran directly over the near-daily exchanges of fire across the Israel-Lebanon border.
If Hezbollah expands its attacks in northern Israel “it will suffer blows that it has not dreamed of – and so too, Iran”, Netanyahu said, without elaborating.
source: AlJazeera
