The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Qatar urged this Saturdaymediating country in indirect negotiations with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, to Cesar what he described as a “double game” in relation to Israeli hostages retained by Islamist militias in the Gaza Strip.
“The time has come for Qatar to leave the double game with its double conversations”said Netanyahu in a statement published in his official account in the Social Network X. The Premier said that Israel Libra a “fair war with fair means” from the terrorist attack of October 7, which triggered the current conflict.
“After the atrocities of October 7, I defined this war as a struggle between civilization and barbarism”he said.
Netanyahu He demanded that the Emirate decide “if he is on the side of civilization or on the side of the barbarism of Hamas”.
These statements occur after leaked information to Israeli media, according to which Qatar would be pressing Hamas not to accept a truce proposal presented by Egypt, waiting to achieve more favorable conditions. Qatar has denied these accusations.
In his social networks, the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, Majed Al-AnsariHe criticized Netanyahu’s words, and said that his country “will continue working together with Egypt and the United States to guarantee a durable fire, an agreement for the release of hostages, and promote a fair and lasting peace, based on justice and humanity, and not on violence or in double standards.
At the same time, Israeli media reported this Saturday that Israel’s army began issuing new mobilization orders to his reservists with a view to a possible extension of the land offensive in Gaza. According to military correspondents, including those of the Army Radio, the new summoned will replace troops currently deployed in other regions of the country and in the West Bank, which would allow to transfer active soldiers to the combat zone in Gaza.
A military spokeswoman consulted by the news agency AFP He refrained from confirming or denying these movements. However, relatives of journalists from AFP They would have already received formal mobilization orders, according to the agency.
After two months of truce with Hamas and weeks of negotiations without progress, Israel resumed on March 18 its bombings and terrestrial operations against terrorist objectives in the Palestinian enclave. Netanyahu has said that military pressure is the only way to achieve the release of hostages.
On Saturday night, Hamas’ armed arm, the Ezedin al Qasam brigades, spread a Video that shows the Russian-Israelí hostage Maxim Herkin wounded.
The man, kidnapped at the Nova Music Festival on October 7, 2023, appears lying down, with bandages on his head and left arm stained with brown. Speaking in Hebrew with a Russian accent, he presents himself as the “prisoner number 24” and mentions the next celebration of Israel’s Independence Day, which suggests that the video was recorded before May 1.
Herkin, 35 and resident of Tirat Carmel, in northern Israel, was born in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk and his mother has Russian citizenship. At the beginning of April, Hamas’ terrorists had already published a video in their Telegram channel in which he appeared.
(With information from AFP and EP)
