Netanyahu is defending the planned military attack in Gaza City, it is the only way to defeat Hamas star-news.press/wp

On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended a planned military attack Gaza CityIsrael’s saying “has no choice but to finish the job and complete the defeat of Hamas.”

Speaking to the foreign media in Jerusalem, Netanyahu confirmed that the goal of Israel was not the occupation of Gaza, but rather to “free Gaza.”

The Israeli leader said that there is a “somewhat short schedule” in mind the following steps in Gaza.

He said that the targets in Gaza include rid the pocket, while maintaining the “dominant security control” of the Israeli army and the development of a responsible civil administration.

The press conference came two days after the Israeli security cabinet agreed to a plan for the Israeli army to seize Gaza City. I ignited this step Contentment inside and outside IsraelAnd you are afraid that the plan will be Exacerbation The humanitarian problems of Gaza’s tape and the remaining hostile hostages that Hamas has has been keeping since October 7, 2023, in an additional danger.

“We will win the war, with or without supporting others,” said Netanyahu.

Netanyahu’s title came before the United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting on Israel’s plan to control Gaza City.

The Prime Minister said that the plan approved by the security cabinet guides the Israeli Defense Forces to dismantle the last two Hamas strongholds in Gaza City and the central camps, while the Palestinians are converted into “safe areas” with food and medical care.

“This is the best way to end the war and the best way to end it quickly,” he said.

Netanyahu also said that the Israeli army in recent days “to bring more foreign journalists” – which could be an amazing development because their arrival in Gaza is limited.

He said he has not yet spoken to President Trump about the plan, but he intends to “very soon.” The American Special Envoy Steve Witkev meets with the Qatari Prime Minister in Spain this week, and the main goal is to discuss to make a new Egyptian “my work” about the return of the hostages that Hamas maintains in Gaza, I mentioned CBS News.

Two Arab officials told the Associated Press that the new ceasefire framework would include the launch of all hostages – the dead and the living – simultaneously in return for the end of the war and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.

More Palestinians were killed as they were seeking help in Gaza

Hospitals and witnesses told Associated Press that at least 26 Palestinians were killed while seeking assistance in the Gaza Strip on the last day.

Hospital officials said they had received bodies from the areas that the Palestinians were looking for aid – either along the food convoy or near the aid distribution points managed by the private sector throughout Gaza.

Nasser Hospital said that the dead are among the 10 of those who were killed while waiting for auxiliary trucks near the newly built Mourge Corridor, which separates the southern cities of Rifa and Khan Yunis.

Six other people were killed while they were waiting for help in northern Gaza near the Zikim crossing, according to the Ministry of Health in Hamas in Gaza and the Shiva Hospital in Gaza City, which received losses.

Nasser Hospital said that six other students were killed while trying to reach the sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Khan Yunis and Rafah.

In response to the Associated Press inquiries, the GHF Media office said: “There were no accidents on our sites or near them today and it seems that these incidents are linked to the crowds trying to loot the relief convoy.”

The Israeli army also said that there are no incidents related to the time of Israeli forces near relief sites in Central Gaza.

During his press conference, Netanyahu blamed Hamas in his role in the ongoing humanitarian crisis, including civil deaths, destruction and aid lack.

“Hamas still has thousands of armed terrorists in Gaza,” he stressed, adding that the Palestinians are “begging” to the world to be liberated from them.

The Prime Minister, who confirmed that there is no “hunger in Gaza”, admitted, “There was a problem in deprivation, and there is no doubt about that.” He said that Israel wants to increase the number of aid distribution sites, but it has not provided any details.