Netanyahu: IDF Pressuring Hamas in Gaza

Stand for Israel  |  April 3, 2025

Israeli soldiers operating in the northern Gaza Strip, on November 28, 2024.
Israeli soldiers operating in the northern Gaza Strip, on November 28, 2024. (Photo: Oren Cohen/Flash90)

As war in Gaza continues, Prime Minister Netanyahu outlined the IDF’s latest tactic aimed at pressuring Hamas to free Israel’s hostages:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that advancing IDF forces were carving out a new security corridor across southern Gaza that would likely cut off the city of Rafah from the rest of the Strip, as Israel seeks to pile pressure on Hamas to free the hostages.

Israel is “shifting gears” in Gaza and creating a “second Philadelphi” route, Netanyahu said in a video message, referring to the corridor on the Gaza-Egypt border.

IDF forces are seizing the “Morag Corridor,” said Netanyahu. The route, which separates Rafah from Khan Younis to its north, is located where the Israeli settlement of the same name once stood, before it was evacuated during Israel’s 2005 withdrawal from Gaza.