Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel will "soon" take control of 70 percent of the Gaza Strip, despite the terms of an ongoing fragile ceasefire.
"We currently hold more than 60 percent of the enclave; soon we will reach 70 percent," Netanyahu said during his weekly cabinet meeting. He said Israel was still fighting Hamas and "eliminating" the group's senior commanders.
In Lebanon, Netanyahu said Israel was "eliminating villages of terror" near the Israeli border. He said Israeli forces had killed about 350 people in Lebanon over the past week, claiming they were all militants.
A ceasefire agreement that took effect in October 2025 allows Israel to keep forces behind the so-called "yellow line" demarcation, which includes about half of the war-devastated enclave.
Israel has continued to carry out daily attacks across Gaza. Earlier on Saturday, Gaza-based health authorities said that 951 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since the ceasefire took effect.
Netanyahu says Israel to "soon" control 70 pct of Gaza
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday raised the possibility of new tariffs on Canada over hazardous wildfire smoke and on Mexico over concerns about "problematic lettuce".
Massive wildfires have been burning across Canada this summer, and wildfire smoke from Ontario has recently drifted southward across the border, degrading air quality across multiple regions of the United States.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump threatened "a big tariff on Canada" because of the smoke.
In a separate development, U.S. health authorities are investigating a nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak tied to fresh produce. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday that it had documented over 4,000 lab-confirmed cyclosporiasis cases since May, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suspected that the outbreak might be related to imported lettuce from Mexico.
When asked whether lettuce would be safe to eat again as it is a possible source of the recent outbreak, Trump responded that "I think what we're going to do is put a major tariff on Mexico because of the lettuce."
Mexico's Health Minister David Kershenobich has said that there is no evidence to indicate that lettuce sourced in Mexico caused the outbreak of cyclosporiasis in the United States.
Trump threatens tariffs on Canada over wildfire smoke, Mexico over lettuce
