Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out a ceasefire in Gaza and accused Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of calling for “genocide” against the Jewish people as he vowed to win the war against Hamas.
Israel’s prime minister lashed out at anti-Israel protesters at US colleges, accusing them of “moral depravity.” He vowed to continue the war in Gaza “however long it takes.”
Speaking on Fox News, the Israeli leader dismissed suggestions of a rift with the White House after agreeing to Joe Biden’s call for a second humanitarian corridor outside the northern Gaza Strip.
But he insisted there would be no ceasefire after Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack that killed more than 1,400 Israelis and took hundreds more hostage.
“A ceasefire with Hamas means surrender to Hamas and to terror,” he added.
President Joe Biden said there was no hope at all for a ceasefire in Gaza as he left the White House for a trip to Illinois on Thursday
Fighting continued in Gaza today, with the Palestinian death toll approaching 11,000
“We will continue until we eradicate Hamas, and nothing will stop that.”
Biden also dismissed the chances of a ceasefire, insisting there was “no possibility, none” as he left the White House for Illinois today.
But the White House announced Thursday that Israel has agreed to open a second corridor for civilians to escape the northern Gaza Strip – along the territory’s coastal highway – joining the first corridor, which runs along its main north-south highway was set up.
In the wake of the attack on Hamas in northern Gaza, a series of daily four-hour humanitarian pauses will be put into effect to free the hostages.
And Netanyahu suggested that the release of the 239 hostages seized by Hamas could make a difference.
“Without the release of the Israeli hostages there will be no ceasefire, that will not happen,” he said.
Indirect talks about a major release of hostages have been taking place in Qatar, which also played a role in Hamas’s release of four hostages last month.
CIA Director William Burns was in Doha on Thursday to speak with the Qatari prime minister and the head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency about efforts to release hostages in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected calls for a ceasefire and vowed to continue the war in Gaza “for however long it takes,” while sharply criticizing Western protests
Israeli forces claimed to have found a missile and drone production site next to a children’s bedroom in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of northern Gaza
Amal al-Robayaa’s children eat their meals amid the ruins of the family’s home, which was destroyed in an Israeli attack in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip
Palestinians continue to flee the epicenter of fighting in the northern Gaza Strip for the relative safety of the south
The Israeli government has agreed to the White House’s demands for a second humanitarian corridor from the north of the Gaza Strip to the south
But the Israeli prime minister insisted that Hamas would be destroyed before the war ends and Gaza is “demilitarized and deradicalized.”
And he praised Congress for voting to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan over her repeated calls for a free Palestine “from the river to the sea.”
She also accused Biden of supporting “genocide” in Gaza and “complicity” in the deaths of children in the Middle East.
“From the river to the sea there is no Israel, from the Jordan to the Mediterranean, which by the way is a tiny area that includes Israel, there is no Israel,” Netanyahu replied.
“And so what this congresswoman is calling for is genocide, the elimination of the Jewish state, the only Jewish state of the Jewish people.”
“I really appreciate the support that President Biden has shown, and frankly the American people and the Congress on both sides of the aisle have shown that it is very important.”
Israel’s prime minister accused Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of calling for “genocide” against the Jewish people
On Tuesday, Israeli President Isaac Herzog sent a letter to the presidents of 700 U.S. universities and colleges calling for action to address rising anti-Semitism on their campuses.
Human rights groups have warned that Jewish and Israeli students are being mistreated on campus, where left-leaning student groups and professors often side with Palestinians and rail against Israeli oppression.
Netanyahu repeated the call as he denounced anti-war protests in Gaza and insisted Israel was fighting on behalf of the “entire civilized world.”
“They are aligned with Isis, with Al-Qaeda, with these baby murderers, these rapists, these head choppers.”
“We must protect our future and our world cannot survive if people live with such moral confusion and moral depravity.”
“It is an indictment of higher education in the West when highly educated people cannot distinguish between right and wrong and between good and evil.”
“Hamas is evil and we must defeat evil, not protest and demonstrate in the name of evil.”
Netanyahu spoke harshly about the anti-Israel protests on US campuses, telling Fox News: “It is an indictment of higher education in the West when highly educated people cannot distinguish between right and wrong and between good and evil.”