Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday stressed that Israel is a sovereign state and will make its own decisions on national security matters, amid reports that key decisions about the future of the Gaza Strip are being discussed in Washington. "Israel is an independent state. We will defend ourselves by our own means and we will continue to determine our fate," Netanyahu said during a meeting of government ministers. "We do not seek anyone's approval for this. We control our security." He added, “I want to make one thing clear — our security policy is in our own hands. We will not tolerate attacks against us; we respond at our discretion to attacks, as we have done in Lebanon and most recently in Gaza. We dropped 150 tons on Hamas and on terror elements after the at

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