2023-11-07 02:07:00
Israel will be in charge of Gaza security indefinitely (Europa Press)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned this Monday that Israel will be in charge of the security of Gaza indefinitely once the war they are waging in that Palestinian territory ends.
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“I believe that Israel will have, for an indefinite period, overall responsibility for security because we have seen what happens when we don’t have it,” Netanyahu said in an excerpt from the interview with the American network ABC that is broadcast tonight.
“When we don’t have that security responsibility, what we have is an eruption of Hamas terror on a scale we couldn’t imagine,” he added.
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The Israeli Prime Minister responded like this when asked who should govern Gaza once the war ends, to which he replied: “Those who do not want to follow the path of Hamas.”
The Israeli army has incessantly bombed Gaza and entered the territory in response to the attack launched on October 7 by Hamas, whose militants killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and took some 240 hostages.
Netanyahu also recalled that his government does not see the possibility of a ceasefire in Gaza (REUTERS/Amir Cohen)
The death toll from the war in Gaza exceeds 10,000 people, including more than 4,000 children, the Ministry of Health of this Hamas-controlled territory said Monday.
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In his interview, Netanyahu cast doubt on the Gaza ministry’s figures and said they surely include “several thousand” Palestinian fighters.
Despite growing calls for a ceasefire from several world leaders, including UN chief Antonio Guterres, Netanyahu opposes it.
“There will be no ceasefire, a general ceasefire, in Gaza until the release of our hostages,” he told >. “As far as small tactical breaks, an hour here and an hour there, we’ve had them before,” he added.
As the prime minister explained, Israel can accept pauses to allow humanitarian goods to enter Gaza or allow hostages captured by Hamas to leave.
The Israeli army found rocket launchers inside a youth center and a mosque in Gaza (REUTERS)
Asked if he will take responsibility for the October 7 attack, Netanyahu responded “of course” and admitted that his government “clearly” failed in its obligation to protect its population.
Earlier on Monday, Israel’s prime minister explained during a meeting with foreign diplomats in Jerusalem that the war against Hamas terrorists “is not a local battle.” “If the Middle East falls into the axis of terror, Europe will be next,” he warned.
Netanyahu questioned the Gaza ministry’s figures and said they surely include “several thousand” Palestinian fighters (REUTERS/Amir Cohen)
Likewise, he indicated that it is “a major battle between civilization and barbarism.” “The axis of terror is led by Iran. It includes Hezbollah (Lebanese Shiite party-militia), Hamas, the Houthis and their other henchmen,” he added.
In this sense, Netanyahu maintained that the known as ‘Axis of Resistance’ – an alliance formed by the partners of the Iranian regime – wants to return both the Middle East and the world “to a dark age.” “They seek to torpedo and derail any progress towards peace,” he said.
Netanyahu also said that Israel’s destruction of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) will bring the people of the Gaza Strip “a true future” of “promise and hope.”
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