Netanyahu threatens to seize territory; Gaza sees mass anti-Hamas protests

Amid renewed instability in the Middle East, Israel's leader now warns of seizing territory in Gaza while hundreds of Palestinians were out on the streets against Hamas, calling for the end of the war.

Byeon Ye-young covers this latest development.

Israel has pledged to increase military pressure until Hamas releases the remaining 59 hostages.

In a parliamentary address on Wednesday, local time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel may seize parts of Gaza as part of its military pressure campaign.

"The fighting in Gaza continues. The more Hamas persists in its refusal to release our hostages, the more powerful the pressure we will exert. And I say to Hamas -this includes seizing territory, and this includes other things that I will not list here."

Israel resumed military operations in Gaza last Tuesday.

According to the spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General, 142 thousand people were displaced in just one week.

At the daily UN press briefing on Wednesday, the spokesperson said that Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warned that everything in Gaza was running out: supplies, time and life.

Meanwhile in Gaza, hundreds of Palestinians gathered in the streets of Beit Lahia in the largest anti-Hamas protests since the beginning of the war.

For two days straight since Tuesday, protesters took to the streets to demand an end to the war and showed defiance against Hamas' governance, chanting "Out, out, Hamas, out" and "we want to live".

"We want to live in peace, we are tired, I raised my son for fifteen years only for him to be gone now (meaning dead), I built my house for ten years and then what? gone? We want to live."

Hamas official Basem Naim said on social media that people have the right "to cry out in pain", but suggested the anger should be directed towards Israel.

Byeon Ye-young, Arirang News.