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Wednesday, October 18, 2023
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Foreign minister: At war’s end, not only will Hamas be gone, but Gaza’s territory will shrink
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen addresses an AJC breakfast in New York on September 21, 2023. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen tells Army Radio, “At the end of this war, not only will Hamas no longer be in Gaza, but the territory of Gaza will also decrease.”
The line is an indication of the speculation from some analysts that the IDF will try and create a buffer zone inside Gaza to better protect Israel’s southern border towns so that they are not exposed to the kind of onslaught that Hamas carried out on October 7.
