Netanyahu says Israel will control all of Gaza after offensive

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that all of the Gaza Strip would be under Israeli control by the end of its debilitating offensive on the enclave. 

"All of the Gaza Strip will be under the Israeli army's control" by the end of the current assault, Netanyahu said at a press briefing in Jerusalem. He added that Israel was only allowing a trickle of aid into Gaza to keep its allies in the US happy.

"We must avoid a humanitarian crisis in order to preserve our freedom of operational action," he said.