Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that no one will prevent Israel from achieving victory in its war against the militants of “Hamas” in the Gaza Strip, reports AFP.
“No one will stop us – not The Hague, not the Axis of Evil and no one else. It is possible and necessary to go on to victory and we will,” Netanyahu said at a televised press conference.
He was referring to a case brought before the UN’s top court, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, which claims Israel’s offensive is in violation of the UN Genocide Convention and an alliance of Iran-backed armed groups around the Middle East. called the Axis of Resistance.
He also said that most of the Hamas battalions have already been eliminated. But those displaced from northern Gaza will not be able to return to their homes anytime soon.
“There is an international law and it says a simple thing – you move a population and you don’t let them come back as long as the danger exists, Netanyahu said. The danger exists. There is fighting going on there.”
Netanyahu: Israel is at war with Hamas, not the Palestinians
His comments come as the International Court of Justice is due to begin hearing the case
We recall that his statement came as the war in Gaza moved into its 100th day on Sunday.
The total number of Palestinians killed in the war reached 23,843. The count did not distinguish between fighters and civilians, but Gaza’s health ministry said about two-thirds of the dead were women and children. The ministry also reported that the total number of wounded during the war exceeds 60,000 people.
The attacks continued on Saturday.
Israel has accused Hamas of planning to attack its embassy in Sweden as part of the expansion of the Palestinian armed group in Europe where authorities announced the arrests of several suspects last month, AAP reports. In a statement following the arrests announced by Danish, German and Swedish authorities, Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency named a suspected member of the Hamas network in Sweden, without specifying whether he was also in custody.
There was no immediate response from Hamas, which in the past has said its policy is to limit attacks to Israel, the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Stockholm declined to comment on the security situation at the Israeli embassy.
Hamas announced a complete failure of Israel’s goals in Gaza
The Palestinian group called for support
“Sweden takes its commitments under the Vienna Convention for the Protection of Foreign Missions very seriously. The Mossad statement said that through an international investigation, information was received that Hamas had received orders from a group command post in Lebanon to attack the Israeli embassy in Sweden and activate members of criminal groups in Europe,” the statement said.
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