Netanyahu says he will continue the war until Hamas is annihilated.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to continue the war in the Gaza Strip until the annihilation of Hamas.
Netanyahu said after planting a tree at the Gaza Division’s headquarters in Camp Re’im, on the Gaza Strip: “Hamas came with the aim of uprooting us, and we will uproot it. It came to annihilate us, and we will annihilate it, and we will establish our roots in our land, and we will uproot our enemies, and we will be here, while they will not be there.” “We are committed to achieving absolute victory,” he added. Absolute victory means eliminating Hamas and returning all our abductees, and we will not abandon this goal.”
Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, speaks before a crowd on the occasion of the annual Jerusalem Day, April 14 (Reuters)
Netanyahu’s threats came as the Israeli army deepened its attack in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, in pursuit of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
An army spokesman said, “The fighters of the Paratroopers Brigade’s combat group have expanded their combat area in Khan Yunis, and are currently acting in the middle of a very crowded urban area, clashing with militants and eliminating them from close range, raiding infrastructure, and finding combat means, mortar shells and rocket-propelled grenades.” And they destroy it.”
He added, “The commando squad continues its attack in the Khan Yunis area, and is intensifying its operational control in Hamas strongholds.” “Guerrilla fighters fight in challenging field conditions.”
An Israeli armored combat vehicle crosses an area near the border with southern Gaza on Thursday (Epa)
In Khan Yunis, Israel has been waging fierce and complex fighting for about 50 days, in an attempt to reach Hamas leaders and detainees, who the Israeli army believes moved from the northern Gaza Strip to the region at the beginning of the war.
But the American network NBC said that Sinwar, who is being pursued by Israel in Khan Yunis, is maintaining his progress one step forward in his war with Israel.
According to the report, Sinwar succeeded in taking the Israeli army and intelligence a step ahead. According to estimates, Sinwar, who planned and supervised the surprise attack on October 7, which led to the death of 1,200 people in Israel and led to the kidnapping of 240 others, remained in motion the entire time, and changed his location so that he would not be found, and this What Israeli army commanders, former and current security officials, and experts who have been in contact with Hamas in the past believe.
A photo taken from Rafah shows smoke rising over Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip during the Israeli bombing last Sunday (AFP)
Current and former Israeli military officials said that Hamas invested great efforts to maintain the secrecy of communication channels between Sinwar and the political leadership in Qatar, also during the ceasefire period during which a number of Israeli detainees were released.
A Hamas political official said that the organization is trying to protect Sinwar and other leaders of the movement. The official said without revealing his name: “I believe that this is the right of every leadership or resistance.” “I am sure this happens in every country.”
A Hamas tunnel in Khan Yunis… The tunnels also included communications exchanges to facilitate safe communication between the movement’s leaders (AFP)
At the beginning of the week, the Israeli army announced the completion of the besiegement of Khan Yunis, the birthplace of Sinwar and a Hamas stronghold in southern Gaza. According to the report, the Israeli army believes that Sinwar is located deep in the maze of tunnels, but they are unable to rule out the possibility that he infiltrated into Egypt through a tunnel.
As the war continues in Khan Yunis, the Israeli army is continuing work that it began last November to establish a one-kilometer-deep buffer zone along the border with the Gaza Strip.
The Wall Street Journal said that this aims to reassure the Israelis to return to the towns surrounding Gaza. The American newspaper quoted the Israeli army as saying that it was destroying the infrastructure of the Hamas movement, but Israeli soldiers working on the border with Gaza confirmed that they were destroying agricultural areas. The Wall Street Journal confirmed that the US administration is facing difficulties by pressuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the buffer zone project, saying that it may accept the establishment of a temporary buffer zone.
Palestinians next to the border fence with Egypt in a temporary camp for the displaced in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday (AFP)
Israeli officials agreed that the buffer zone might be temporary, but they did not provide the US administration with a timetable or plan. According to the Wall Street Journal.
In order to achieve this goal, Israel demolished 1,100 to 2,800 buildings, most of which were agricultural greenhouses. An Israeli source said that the aim of demolishing the buildings is to prepare this area for free work in the future.
In response to the ongoing Israeli attack, the Al-Qassam Brigades confirmed that it continued targeting soldiers and destroying tanks and vehicles in Khan Yunis and other areas in Gaza.
As the fighting raged on the ground, Palestinians in Khan Yunis went out for the first time in a demonstration calling for an end to the war. Palestinians appeared in a video chanting, “The people want a ceasefire.” Netanyahu and Sinwar want a ceasefire. Enough war, enough destruction.
A Palestinian woman prepares bread while children sit next to her in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday (Reuters)
In addition to the ground war, Israeli bombing continued on the 111th day of the war.
The bombing killed more Palestinians in large areas of Gaza, and the Ministry of Health there said that “the death toll from the war reached 25,700 martyrs and 63,740 injured, most of them children and women, in addition to more than 7,000 missing persons.”
As the war continued, the tragedy of the Palestinians in Gaza deepened, as they became displaced people suffering from great famine.
The Palestinian National Council called on the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, to declare the Israeli occupation state among the list of countries of shame, and to declare the Gaza Strip a disaster area. In a press statement on Thursday, the Council called on the international community, the Security Council, and all countries of the world not to apply double standards, and for the scale of justice to be for all peoples, regardless of race, religion, and color.
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