With his popularity at an all-time low and him deaf to pleas, the Israeli Prime Minister has ruled out the possibility of a ceasefire and assured that it is necessary to make a “moral distinction between the murder of innocents and unintended victims.”
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuhaha rejected any possibility of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip because this would mean ‘surrender to Hamas’.
“Calls for a ceasefire are calls for Israel to do so surrender to Hamasto surrender to terror, to barbarism,” he said at a press conference, according to the newspaper The times of Israel.
In this sense, he has assured that no one would have asked the United States for a ceasefire after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. In the same way, he has indicated that it is necessary to establish a “moral distinction between the murder of innocents and unintended victims that accompany every legitimate war.”
The Israeli Prime Minister also indicated that the Israeli army is making “systematic progress” in the Gaza Strip as it expands its ground invasion. “There will be more steps to come: it is impossible to describe them in detail here, but we are talking about them within the war cabinet,” he said.
In addition, Netanyahu celebrated the release of the soldier who was taken hostage by Hamas during the October 7 offensive. The Israeli leader has stressed that efforts to free the hostages continue.
In the same vein, the National Security Advisor of USAJohn Kirby agrees with Netanyahu ceasefire ‘is not the right answer’ before the conflict.
“This crisis has reached unprecedented levels of dehumanization,” said a UN expert
The crisis unleashed by the Hamas attack and the subsequent Israeli offensive is a “political and humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions,” said Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967.
In an interview with UN News, the expert assured that it is “impossible to describe the pain and suffering that Israelis suffer because of what happened to them… because there are not only people who died and people who were held hostage. , but an entire population is completely shocked.”
However, he said Gaza residents have “already suffered five deadly wars… during the period in which Israel has imposed an illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip, trapping 2.2 million people.” And since October 7, “they have been bombed recklessly, dropping an average of 6,000 bombs per week,” he added.
Source: EITB
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