While giving a lecture in occupied West Bank, Israeli prime minister was interrupted by the public, who asked him to fully control Gaza Israeli anthropologist Maya Wind: "Israeli universities operate as accomplices to genocide and apartheid" Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Army on Thursday to occupy 70% of the Gaza Strip and has even joked about achieving total control of the enclave. "Let's go in order," he said at a colloquium in occupied West Bank in response to public outcries demanding that Israel fully occupy Gaza. Netanyahu's order comes after Israeli troop presence increased from controlling around 52% to 60% of Gaza in recent months.