JERUSALEM, Israel – As Israel's ground operation in Gaza City kicks into high gear, the Israel Defense Forces claim Hamas has turned Gaza into the largest human shield ever, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he's again been invited to visit the White House.

Netanyahu, who also watched from a military command center as the Israeli Air Force launched a retaliatory attack on the Houthis' key port in Yemen, said nearly 400,000 Gazans have left the area as Israeli troops penetrate deeper into the last Hamas stronghold.

On Tuesday, the prime minister declared, "Today I gave an order in a discussion at the Ministry of Defense to find ways to allow them to leave more easily. They want to leave, they want to get out of there, from the city, because they are responding to us and not

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