Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement on the war this Thursday, January 19th
The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahuwarned this Monday 6th that the country will be in charge of security Gaza indefinitely once the war with the Islamic group ends Hamas on Palestinian territory. “I think that Israel will have overall responsibility for security indefinitely, because we have already seen what happens if we don’t have it,” Netanyahu said in an excerpt from an interview with the American television channel “ABC News”. “If we do not have this security responsibility, there will be an outbreak of Hamas terrorism on a scale that we cannot imagine,” he added. Asked who should govern Gaza after the war ends, the Israeli prime minister replied: ” Those who do not want to follow the path of Hamas.” Netanyahu also said that his government sees no possibility of a ceasefire in Gaza unless the more than 240 hostages held by Hamas after the attack on Israeli territory on March 7 are released. “There will be no general ceasefire without the release of the hostages,” the prime minister stressed, but explained that his government would take “small tactical breaks” of “one hour” to allow humanitarian access.
*With information from EFE