The Israeli military has intensified strikes on parts of Gaza after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged that the country’s forces would be “switching gears” in the territory, dividing and seizing more parts of the strip.

On the war, President Trump is more aligned than his predecessor with the aims of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and his right-wing coalition.

The Israeli Defense Forces are now in control of over half of the Gaza Strip, with plans to continue enlarging their territory inward toward the Mediterranean Sea. Expansion of the occupation has been made possible through aggressive military action near buffer zones and the creation of security corridors that run straight across the strip.