Israel will "occupy Gaza" after the government has approved the extension of the war - Press left!

Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said that his country would "at last" occupy the Gaza Strip, as the government of Benyamin Netanyahu had ordered an expansion of the war against the Palestinian enclave. The far right minister said that Israel would not withdraw from Gaza, even if Israeli prisoners were released in exchange, stressing that their release was only possible if Hamas was "maté." "We will finally occupy the Gaza Strip. We wil…