JERUSALEM/GAZA/CAIRO -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel will "soon" take control of 70 percent of the Gaza Strip, despite the terms of an ongoing fragile ceasefire.

"We currently hold more than 60 percent of the enclave; soon we will reach 70 percent," Netanyahu said during his weekly cabinet meeting. He said Israel was still fighting Hamas and "eliminating" the group's senior commanders.

In Lebanon, Netanyahu said Israel was "eliminating villages of terror" near the Israeli border. He said Israeli forces had killed about 350 people in Lebanon over the past week, claiming they were all militants.

A ceasefire agreement that took effect in October 2025 allows Israel to keep forces behind the so-called "yellow line" demarcation, which includes about half of the war-devastated enclave.

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Israel has continued to carry out daily attacks across Gaza. Earlier on Saturday, Gaza-based health authorities said that 951 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since the ceasefire took effect.

5 Palestinians killed in S. Gaza

On Sunday, at least five Palestinians were killed and more than 10 others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a Hamas police post in al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian medical and security sources.

The Hamas-run police general directorate said in a press statement that Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at the police post in the area, resulting in casualties.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a press statement that its crews transported the bodies of five victims and more than 10 wounded individuals from the site of the attack to the society's field hospital in al-Mawasi.

Eyewitnesses said the victims included police officers and civilians who were in the area.

Also on Sunday, the Palestinian Presidency said that Israel's escalating policies and support for settler "terrorism" are keeping the region on the "brink of disaster."

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In a press statement published by the Palestinian official news agency WAFA, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the presidency spokesperson, warned of the dangerous repercussions of these policies on security and stability in the region, adding that the Palestinian cause "cannot be marginalized or bypassed," emphasizing that the failure to reach a just solution means the continuation of wars and crises.

He said that the Palestinian cause is a "just and sacred cause for the world, deeply rooted in history," and that ignoring the rights of the Palestinian people and attempts to impose "fait accompli policies will not achieve security for anyone, nor will they grant any legitimacy to the occupation and its colonization."

Palestinian factions, mediators meet in Cairo

Meanwhile, a high-level meeting of Palestinian factions was held on Sunday in the presence of Egyptian, Qatari and Turkish mediators to discuss the implementation of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip.

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According to Egypt's Al-Qahera News channel, the meeting focused on a proposed roadmap for completing the implementation of the second phase of the ceasefire agreement.

Participants agreed on the need to finalize the implementation of US President Donald Trump's 20-point peace plan, particularly all resolutions of the first phase.

The meeting occurred at a time when the implementation of several key clauses of the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel had hit a snag, including issues related to disarmament and the reconstruction of the Strip.

The first phase of the ceasefire agreement included the exchange of prisoners and detainees, the entry of humanitarian supplies into the Strip, and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from parts of Gaza.

In mid-January, the United States announced the launch of the second phase, after which a 15-member transitional Palestinian technocratic committee for administering the Gaza Strip was established. The committee is headed by Ali Shaath, a former Palestinian Authority official.