The US has threatened to stop supplying weapons to Israel, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unimpressed. If necessary, Israel will fight alone in the Gaza Strip, he says in a video message (see above).
“As I have said before, we will fight with our claws if we have to,” Netanyahu said in the video message on Thursday. “But we have much more than our claws and with this willpower, with the help of God, we will achieve victory together.”
“Be determined and united behind the goal”
In the video, Netanyahu referred to Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. “In the War of Independence 76 years ago, we were the few against the many. We had no weapons, there was an arms embargo against Israel. But with our great spirit, our heroism and our unity, we won. Today we are much stronger. We are determined and united behind the goal of defeating those who want to kill us,” he stressed.
The US government had previously called on Israel to refrain from a major ground offensive in Rafah in the Gaza Strip, thereby also averting a restriction on US arms supplies. “We hope it doesn’t come to that,” National Security Council communications director John Kirby said Thursday.
Israel wants to destroy the “last stronghold of Hamas”.
More than a million people have sought refuge in Rafah from the fighting between the Israeli army and the Islamist-Palestinian organization Hamas. The Israeli government is sticking to its plans for a ground offensive in Rafah, despite massive international criticism. She describes the city in the southern Gaza Strip as Hamas’s last remaining stronghold.
Source: Krone
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