2024-05-05 12:18:00
Netanyahu says Hamas’ demands are unacceptable and Israel will continue fighting until it achieves its goals in Gaza
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a video statement accusing Hamas of raising unacceptable demands in negotiations for the release of Israel’s hostages.
Netanyahu stated that Israel had “demonstrated its willingness to go far” in the negotiations.
But “Hamas remained entrenched in its extreme positions, chief among them the demand to withdraw all our forces from Gaza, end the war and leave Hamas intact,” he said.
“The State of Israel cannot accept this,” Netanyahu continued.
“We are not willing to accept a situation in which Hamas battalions come out of their bunkers, take control of Gaza once more, rebuild their military infrastructure and once once more threaten the citizens of Israel in the surrounding settlements, in the southern cities, in all parts of the country,” he said.
“Israel will not accede to Hamas’ demands, which mean surrender, and will continue the fighting until all its objectives are achieved,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu stated that “surrendering to Hamas’ demands would be a terrible defeat for the State of Israel. It will be an immense victory for Hamas, for Iran, for the entire axis of evil. It will project terrible weakness, both before our friends and before our enemy.” “.
That weakness “will only bring the next war closer and the next peace agreement further away. Because alliances are not made with the weak and defeated, alliances are made with the strong and victorious.”
Netanyahu stated that “it is Hamas that prevents the release of our hostages. We are working in every possible way to free the hostages. This is at the forefront of our minds.” Israel was and continues to be willing to call a truce in the fighting to free our hostages. “This is what we did when we freed 124 hostages and fought once more, and this is what we are prepared to do today.”
“In recent weeks, we have been working tirelessly to forge an agreement to return the kidnapped people. And once more, totally contrary to what was published [en los medios de comunicación]To achieve this goal, we gave the negotiating team a very broad mandate to guarantee his release. “We did it out of our deep duty towards those kidnapped and to put an end to the terrible suffering of the families.”
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