Follow live coverage as Israel’s security cabinet approves a plan to occupy Gaza City in Netanyahu’s latest Israel-Hamas war escalation.

Gaza city, once the beating heart of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory, is now a shattered landscape.Before the war began in October 2023, the city was home to about 700,000 people crammed into a 45 square-kilometre space,

Israel's military will "take control" of Gaza City under a plan proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and approved by his security cabinet, his office said in a statement Friday.His office on Friday said a majority of the security cabinet had adopted "five principles",