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Netanyahu: Israel ‘has no choice but to finish job and complete defeat of Hamas’

By Molly Stubbs
Official Portrait of Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "Photo Avi Ohayon is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel “has no choice but to finish the job and complete the defeat of Hamas”.

He was speaking to foreign media in Jerusalem and defending a planned military offensive.

He asserted that “our goal is not to occupy Gaza, our goal is to free Gaza”.

Mr Netanyahu is also pushing back against what he calls a “global campaign of lies” as condemnation of the plan grows both inside and outside Israel.

He said there is a “fairly short timetable” in mind for next steps in Gaza.

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Goals

The goals there, he said, include demilitarising Gaza, the Israeli military having “overriding security control” there and a non-Israeli civilian administration in charge.

The prime minister also said he had directed Israel’s military in recent days to “bring in more foreign journalists” — which would be a striking development as they have not been allowed into Gaza beyond military embeds.

Mr Netanyahu again blamed many of Gaza’s problems on the Hamas militant group, including civilian deaths, destruction and shortages of aid.

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6 comments

Fi yn unig

Truly sickening.

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S Duggan

So he really thinks that by flattening Gaza it will destroy Hamas rather than being a huge recruitment drive for the terrorist organisation? Only a two state peace deal will lead to the end of Hamas.

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Paul

Isreal has probably done more to encourage Hamas gaining support than Palestine has done. Why do we not Learn from history?

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Amir

The face of pure evil.

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Amir

So if his "goal is to free ghazza", why don't we look at how he created his own monster. Hamas had already released on August 18, 1988 their covenant stating their destructive intentions towards Zion. Despite this covenant statement, Netanyahu still allowed their funding to continue from Qatar. Indeed Netanyahu said in August 2018, “in coordination with security experts to return calm to (Israeli) villages of the south, but also to prevent a humanitarian disaster (in Gaza). I got the following from CNN Dec 2023: “Major General Amos Gilad, a former senior Israeli Defense Ministry official, told CNN the plan was backed by the prime minister, but not by the Israeli intelligence community. There was also some belief that it would “weaken Palestinian sovereignty,” he said. There was also an illusion, he added, that “if you fed them (Hamas) with money, they would be tamed.” Shlomo Brom, a former deputy to Israel’s national security adviser, told the New York Times that an empowered Hamas helped Netanyahu avoid negotiating over a Palestinian state, saying the division of the Palestinians helped him make the case that he had no partner for peace in the Palestinians, thus avoiding pressure for peace talks that could lead to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state." So are these all 'lies' from within his own government.

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Frank

If warmongers had to lead from the front line I doubt whether there would be any wars. It's so easy to send other people's children to war and then lead from afar. Warmongers should be arrested and incarcerated for even thinking of attacking another nation. Complete nutters. 99.99999% of people want to live peacefully but still obey one man's decision. Crazy!!

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Isreal has probably done more to encourage Hamas gaining support than Palestine has done. Why do we not Learn from history?

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