Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that America and the West “will be next” if Hamas is not eradicated.
Israel’s prime minister told Fox News on Monday that it was vital in the interests of the “civilized world” that the IDF locate the terrorists responsible for the Oct. 7 massacre.
Netanyahu said: “If we don’t win now, then Europe is next and you are next. And we have to win.’
“We must win to protect Israel.” We must win to protect the Middle East. We must win in the interests of the civilized world.
“This is the fight we are fighting and it is being fought right now. “There is no substitute for this victory.”
Addressing Americans again, he stressed, “Our fight is your fight,” before branding the war as a frontline against “barbarism” that could “endanger the entire world.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that America and the West will be “next” if Hamas is not eradicated in the war against the terror group
“Every American, every civilized country will be in danger.” We must win. There is no substitute for victory. Total victory, he added.
Netanyahu called out the Iran-led “Axis of Terror” – which includes Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen – and said: “They want to return the Middle East, the world, to the Dark Ages. “
He continued: “And on the other side are Israel, the modern Arab states, of course the United States, all the forces that want to see peace and prosperity for the Middle East and the world.” And that is the fight that is being waged right now becomes.”
But the Israeli prime minister also mentioned that they are “fighting for the residents of Gaza who are held captive by this dark tyranny that has brutalized them and brought them nothing but bloodshed, poverty and misery.”
As Israeli forces roam the Gaza Strip, they have claimed to have found a Hamas base beneath a hospital “where hostages were being held,” with footage of the area released on November 13.
As the world mourns the loss of innocent lives in Gaza, Netanyahu insists there will be no ceasefire until all Israeli hostages are returned.
Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 attack captured about 240 people and killed at least 1,200 Israeli civilians. In response, Israel has begun a siege on the Gaza Strip to finally eliminate the terrorist group.
A member of the Israeli security forces stands near burning cars after a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, southern Israel, October 7
The Israeli side of the Gaza border on November 11th
Abu Ubaida, Hamas spokesman, said in an audio recording posted on the group’s Telegram channel that they were ready to release up to 70 women and children held in Gaza in return for a five-day ceasefire with Israel.
“Last week there was an attempt by the Qatari brothers to free enemy prisoners of women and children in return for the release of 200 Palestinian children and 75 women held by the enemy.”
“The ceasefire should include a complete ceasefire and allow aid and humanitarian assistance throughout the Gaza Strip,” he said.
He accused Israel of “hesitating and evading” the deal’s price.
Speaking about the war at a press conference in Tel Aviv on Saturday, Netanyahu said that Israel “will not stop until we complete our mission” and that its only goal is victory.
He said Hamas had “lost control of Gaza” and now had “nowhere to hide.”
Netanyahu said he still has daily contact with US President Joe Biden and also enjoys the “political and ethical support” of the American government.
The armed wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Monday it had told Qatari mediators that the group was willing to release up to 70 women and children held in Gaza in return for a five-day ceasefire with Israel
Abu Ubaida, the spokesman for Hamas’s armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, said in an audio recording posted on the group’s Telegram channel that they had offered a deal
Several world leaders have come to Israel to show their support, but there are “minorities putting pressure on governments,” he said.
He called on the government “not to give in to this pressure” and said: “Our war is their war.”
“No international pressure, no false accusations… will dissuade us from our cause,” he said.
He rejected calls for a ceasefire, saying: “If you want peace, we have to eliminate Hamas.”
As Israeli forces currently fight in the center of Gaza City, the territory’s capital, both sides have seized on the plight of hospitals as a symbol of the larger war, now in its sixth week.
Israel accuses Hamas of using hospitals as cover for its fighters and claims Hamas set up its main command center in and beneath Gaza’s largest hospital, Shifa, without providing visual evidence. Both Hamas and Shifa Hospital employees deny the Israeli allegations.
On Monday, the military released images of a children’s hospital where its forces moved in over the weekend. It shows weapons it said it found inside, as well as rooms in the basement where the militants are believed to have held some of the roughly 240 hostages they kidnapped during the first attack.
Meanwhile, gunfire and explosions broke out on Monday around Shifa, which has been surrounded by Israeli troops for days. Tens of thousands of people have fled the hospital to the southern Gaza Strip in recent days, including many displaced people who had sought refuge there, but also patients who were able to move.
People mourn as they collect the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli raids on November 14
US President Joe Biden said on Monday that Shifa “must be protected”.
“It is my hope and expectation that there will be less intrusive measures,” Biden said in the Oval Office.
Early Tuesday, the Israeli military said in a statement that it had begun moving incubators from Israel to Shifa. It was not clear whether the incubators were delivered or how they would be powered.
The U.S. has pushed for temporary pauses to allow for broader distribution of much-needed aid. Israel has only agreed to daily windows during which civilians can flee the northern Gaza Strip on foot along two main roads. UN monitors said about 200,000 people had moved south along the two routes since November 5. Israel has described the southern corridors as safe, but at the same time it continues to attack alleged militant targets across the territory, often killing women and children.
Israel’s stated goal of separating civilians from Hamas fighters has come at a high price: More than two-thirds of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have fled their homes.