“We will destroy Hamas,” Yoav Gallant said at a news conference on Tuesday.
Israel’s defense minister reiterated on Tuesday evening, November 7, that his troops are now “in the heart of Gaza City,” a month after the start of the war sparked by Hamas’s unprecedented attacks in Israel. The Jewish state, which had vowed to “destroy” the Palestinian movement, sent ground troops there, which continued to advance into the Gaza Strip under air cover. The city of the same name is located in the north of the enclave.
“We will destroy Hamas. (…) Our armed forces are ready on all fronts,” Minister Yoav Gallant said at a press conference in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, calling Gaza “the largest terrorist base ever built.”
“No ceasefire” without the release of the hostages
During the day, a minute’s silence was observed in several Israeli cities and institutions in memory of the victims of the attack carried out by Hamas on October 7 in the Gaza Strip under its control. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday evening that there would be “no ceasefire” or the importation of fuel into the Gaza Strip “without the release of the Israeli and foreign hostages held for a month.”
While Israel unilaterally withdrew its soldiers and settlers from Gaza in 2005 after 38 years of occupation, Benjamin Netanyahu told the American broadcaster ABC News on Monday evening that his country would assume “general responsibility for security indefinitely” after the war. in Palestinian territory to, in his opinion, prevent Hamas from returning. “In general, we do not support a reoccupation of the Gaza Strip,” the US replied.