By Evgenia Filimianova and Ryan Morgan Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Aug. 7 that Israel plans to establish full military control over the Gaza Strip, with the goal of eventually transferring authority to a local security force capable of governing the territory effectively, without the influence of Hamas. In an interview with Fox […]
Tag: Military Occupation
Military or belligerent occupation is effective provisional control by a certain ruling power over a territory, which is not under the formal sovereignty of that entity, without the violation of the actual sovereign. The territory is then known as the occupied territory and the ruling power the occupant.