Israel to manage Gaza security 'indefinitely'

Israel is waging an offensive that it says is aimed at destroying Hamas

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• The nature of the security control - indeed the nature of the Gaza Strip - after this very punishing war is far from clear

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he sees his country having security control over Gaza for an indefinite period, suggesting it will maintain that role even after fighting in the besieged territory ends.

"Israel for an indefinite period will have the overall security responsibility because we've seen what happens when we don't have it," Netanyahu said in excerpts of an interview with ABC News aired late on Monday. "When we don't have that security responsibility, what we have is the eruption of Hamas terror on a scale that we couldn't imagine."