From the White House to Egypt, in addition to several European countries, there has been multiple pressures on the Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu for his country to stop the war in the Middle East, especially in view of the fact that, apart from pursuing Hamas terrorism, Civilian victims are counted in the tens of thousands.lis and All of Gaza is experiencing a humanitarian tragedy. However, this Sunday Netanyahu rejected the progress believed to have been made towards a possible trucepointing out that “Israel cannot accept the demands that Hamas has put forward.”
“Capitulating to what Hamas is asking would be a terrible defeat for the State of Israel”said the Israeli president, at the end of a ministerial meeting, as detailed by his office to the press, highlighting that “Israel has shown its will, but Hamas remains entrenched in extreme positions, especially because it demands an end to the presence of all our forces in the Gaza Strip, an end to the war and the leaving of Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip. can”.
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““Israel has been, and continues to be, willing to pause the fighting, so that our hostages can be freed, that is what we did when we managed to free 124 hostages, and only then did we resume the fighting,” Netanyahu indicated, but he categorically confirmed that he will not accept a post-war scenario in which Hamas remains in power in Gaza, much less while it still holds dozens of Jewish hostages in that territory, remnants of the citizens they captured after the massacres. in southern Israel on October 7 of last year.
“Israel cannot accept that”explained the Israeli prime minister, in relation to the demands that Hamas representatives brought to Egypt last week, and Netanyahu pointed out that “accepting what they ask would allow the terrorists to continue their massacres, rapes and kidnappings again and again.” .
For his part, the top political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyereiterated that the group is interested in reaching a ceasefire to put an end to Israeli “aggression” and guarantee the withdrawal of its troops from Gaza along with an exchange of hostages, according to the Qatari network. Al Jazeera.
In parallel, Haniye blamed Netanyahu for “maintaining aggression and the expansion of the circle of conflict and for sabotaging the efforts made through mediators and various parties” to reach a truce. Although Israel insists that it “cannot accept” the group’s demands for a definitive end to hostilities in the Gaza Strip.
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Likewise, this Sunday the Lebanese pro-Iranian movement Hezbollah announced that fired dozens of rockets against Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel in retaliation for an attack that took place in southern Lebanon and which, according to a local official, caused the death of a couple and their son.
“About ten projectiles were fired from an area adjacent to Rafah towards the Kerem Shalom area. The Kerem Shalom border crossing is currently closed to humanitarian aid trucks“, declared the Israeli army in this regard, confirming the closure of the crossing that gives access to the Gaza Strip after the aforementioned attacks.
In this context, the Israeli government also made the decision to close Qatari news channel Al Jazeera in Israelby unanimous vote of the government, after the increase in tensions. In addition, they accused the network of “bias and incitement against the country.”
