“(The Israeli forces) will not enter and then they will withdraw. That is not the goal,” said the Israeli president, who labeled “overfundent operation” the New military campaignwhich includes the displacement of the population to the south “to protect it” and “powerful attacks against Hamas”, according to an official Israeli source.
The Israel Security Cabinet, in charge of the course of the offensive in Gaza, approved Monday morning expand its operations in the enclave, as well as a plan with which to resume access to humanitarian aid that it fully blocked since last March 2.
“This was the recommendation of the Chief of Staff: Advance, as he expressed, towards the defeat of Hamas. He believes that this will also help us rescue the hostages on the road. I agree with him. We will not cease in this effort and we will not give up any. That is what we are doing,” Netyahu added.
In the strip they are still 59 hostages (Israel estimates that only 24 of them are still alive) in the hands of Hamas, who in recent weeks had offered to free them all in exchange for the total withdrawal of Israeli troops.
The new Israeli plan now moves away, more than ever, the possibility that a new Fire Agreement arrives in the short term, which the relatives of the hostages also demand.
On the other hand, Netanyahu also said that “it is necessary” to create a State Commission On the attacks of Hamas of October 2023, but which will only be established once the war in Gaza.
“We said from the beginning that we would do it at the end of the war,” he added, after the criticisms that on Monday launched the movement for a quality government in Israel to hear that the security cabinet approved last night to postpone its creation.
