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Some leaders of the Democrats and Republicans in the United States Congress They invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to give a speech to lawmakers in a few weeksas reported on Friday by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson.
“We join the State of Israel in its fight against terror, especially as Hamas continues to maintain captives to American and Israeli citizens and their leaders endanger regional stability”said Johnson’s invitation signed by the four leaders of the parties in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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For his part, Netanyahu He claimed this Saturday to be “delighted” having been invited to speak before the US Congress, in the middle of the war between his country and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza.
“I am delighted by the privilege of representing Israel before both houses of Congress and presenting the truth about our “just war against those who seek to end our lives,” declared the Israeli leader in a statement.
This invitation is made in the midst of the wave of violence faced by Israel and Palestine, after the Israeli army assumed control. “operational control” of the strategic Philadelphia corridor along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
“We have established operational control” of the 14-kilometer-long corridor, the officer told reporters, requesting confidentiality of the source. Israeli troops had already taken control of the Rafah border crossing into Egypt on May 7, when beginning its ground offensive in that city at the southern end of the Gaza Strip.
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The Philadelphia corridor is a security zone between Gaza and Egypt, patrolled until 2005 by Israeli troops, who withdrew from the entire Palestinian territory that year. Since thenIsrael expressed fears that weapons were being routed through the corridor to Palestinian armed groups in Gaza.
