Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a statement on Wednesday about Israel's intensifying operations in the Gaza Strip and announced that Israel will take control of an additional corridor. "Last night in the Gaza Strip, we changed gears. The IDF is taking territory, hitting terrorists, and destroying infrastructure. We are also doing something else: We are seizing the Morag Corridor. This will be the second Philadelphi, an additional Philadelphi Corridor." He explained that the reason for this is that "we are now dividing the Strip and increasing the pressure step by step, so that they will give us our hostages. And as long as they do not give them to us, the pressure will increase until they do." Netanyahu affirmed: "We are determined to achieve the war's goals, and we are working without rest and with a clear motive, and clear objective. And with G-d's help and the help of our heroic soldiers - we will achieve it." The corridor that Netanyahu announced is seemingly named for the now destroyed Jewish village of Morag, which was situated between Rafah and Khan Yunis. If the corridor would run through the same area, it would separate southern Gaza's two major cities.
