Netanyahu: Hamas doesn't want to bend. “We need to finish the job”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Sunday during a press conference in Jerusalem that because Hamas does not want to bend, Israel has no other choice but to “finish the work” and defeat it. He added that the goal is not to occupy the city of Gaza, but “liberate gauze.”

The new Gaza offensive aims to destroy the other two Hamas bastions there – added the prime minister, whose government on Friday announced that the Israeli army would strive to take the city. Netajahu assured that Israel would win a war in the Palestinian half -ancient “with or without others”.

He stated that the Israeli authorities discuss “creative ways” of releasing hostages during a campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. He also argued that he did not want to occupy gauze or prolong the war.

The prime minister, who talked to foreign journalists in Jerusalem, also stated that the city plan – is “the best way to end the war”, and its extension would lead to the fact that many hostages would die in voice.

Hamas warned that if the Israeli forces started a new offensive, he would kill hostages.

During the press conference, Netanyahu defended the decision to initiate an offensive in Gaza, protesting against the “global lies campaign”, as he called the voices of criticism, condemning Israel's plans. He also argued that although inspection of the city will be exercised by Israeli soldiers, the authorities would be transferred to some civilian instance.

He announced that the campaign would end “quite quickly” and promised that Israel would create in this city “protected corridors” and new points of distribution of humanitarian aid, and also informed that he ordered in recent days of the army “adding (into the Gaza Zone) a larger number of foreign journalists”, which – as he comments events, because so far reporters were only allowed to stay at designated military units.

Generally, the prime minister tried to blame all tragedies of the inhabitants of the Palestinian semi -Ence.

The decision to occupy Gaza Israeli's security office was made on Friday morning. According to the media, the campaign will be associated with resettlement from 800 thousand. up to 1 million Palestinian civilians and may take up to half a year. The authorities, however, did not provide the date of starting the operation.

The governments of many countries of the world expressed fears that the new offensive would worsen the tragic situation of Palestinian civilians even more. The humanitarian crisis is deepening in the war -ruined zone. Over 200 Palestinians have died of hunger and malnutrition since the beginning of the year, including nearly 100 children.

The Israeli opposition has criticized Netanyahu's plan, assessing that he was exposing hostages to death to death, and the campaign itself may result in serious losses among soldiers.

On Saturday evening in Tel Aviv, many thousands of people demonstrated against the plans of the total occupation of the city of Gaza.

Earlier, Hamas announced that the decision of Netanyahu's office proves that the Israeli government does not care about its hostages, because the new offensive means their “sacrifice”. 50 Israeli hostages remain in the hands of Hamas and other terrorist organizations, of which at least 28 are already dead.

Numerous observers in Israel and abroad believe that the prime minister plays the extension of the war to keep his right -wing coalition alive, in which the most extreme factions want the Gaza Strip again, or even its full seizure and displacement of Palestinians.

Netanyahu is also fighting not to lose the office and then not stand before the court in cases of corruption and abuse of power that has been against him for many years. (PAP)

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