Israel’s National Security Adviser Tchai Hanegby, and “Netanyahu’s right hand” said he expected the fighting in Gaza to continue at least for all of 2024, despite escalating international backlash.

The fighting in Gaza will last at least another seven months, the Israeli official said.

The 67-year-old diplomat also said that Israel controls 75% of the “Philadelphia Corridor” – against along the Gaza-Egypt border.

“Inside Gaza, the Israeli Army now controls 75% of Philadelphia’s corridor, and I believe it will control him over time. Together with the Egyptians, we must ensure that arms smuggling is prevented,” he told Israeli public broadcaster Kan, according to Reuters.

A day after being elected to the leadership of the Labor Party by an overwhelming majority, the former deputy chief of staff of the IDF, Yair Golan, report him Benjamin Netanyahu that he does not want the war with Hamas to end.

The bombs used in Sunday’s Israeli airstrike that killed 45 Palestinians in the Rafah refugee camp were made in the US, the New York Times reports.

In their report, the NYT cites visual evidence examined by weapons experts.

In particular, according to what the NYT reveals, the munitions debris at the site of the attack the next day was the remains of a GBU-39, a bomb designed and manufactured in the United States.