On the 100th day of the Gaza War, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again promised his country to fight “until complete victory”. The State of Israel, its armed forces and security services fought an “unparalleled moral and just war against the monsters of Hamas, the new Nazis”, said on Saturday the head of the Government, who is under internal political pressure.
“No one will stop us,” Netanyahu said, pointing to the genocide case filed by South Africa at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. He spoke of a “hypocritical attack in The Hague against the state of the Jews, which arose from the ashes of the Holocaust, at the behest of those who came to commit another Holocaust against the Jews.” This is “a morally low point in the history of nations,” Netanyahu said.
The army found copies of Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” in Hamas tunnels under the Gaza Strip. Hamas Islamists are “the new Nazis”, said Netanyahu, quoting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD). He thanked him for Germany's clear rejection of the allegation of genocide.
A massacre perpetrated by Hamas and other extremist organizations in southern Israel, with 1,200 deaths, and the abduction of civilians and soldiers in the Gaza Strip triggered the Gaza war on October 7. Since then, the Israeli military has launched massive airstrikes and a ground offensive against Hamas. Netanyahu's popularity plummeted after the unprecedented attack. Public opinion in his country accuses him of neglecting the security forces' preparations for such an attack.
“We will continue the war to the end – to complete victory, until we have achieved all our objectives: eliminating Hamas, returning all our hostages and ensuring that Gaza will never again pose a threat to Israel,” Netanyahu said. It is also a war against “the axis of evil, led by Iran and its three representatives”, added the head of government, citing not only Hamas, but also the Shiite militia Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen.