by AFP
Israeli PM says there is no peace until Hamas is destroyed
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted that peace can only be achieved in Gaza if Hamas, the demilitarized territory and “deradicalized” Palestinian society are destroyed, after warning that the war is set to intensify. The declarations came as the World Health Organization reported on Monday “sticking accounts of entire families killed since the Christmas Eve strikes on a refugee camp in Gaza. Relentless strikes by Israel have devastated the Palestinian territory and the conflict has increased tensions on across the Middle East, with global pressure to establish a ceasefire. ed published in the Wall Street Journal on Monday night, Netanyahu vowed to stay the course. “Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza demilitarized, and Palestinian society deradicalize These are the three prerequisites for peace between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors in Gaza,” Netanyahu said. He said demilitarization will require the establishment of a “temporary security zone on the perimeter” of the territory. Gaza, telling a meeting of his Likud party after return: “We are not stopping”.”We are intensifying the fight in the coming days,” he said, according to a party statement.- ‘Harrowing account’ -The war in Gaza erupted when Palestinian militants broke through the military border and the attack of southern Israel on October 7, killing about 1,140 people, mostly civilians, according to AFP scores based on Israeli figures. Fighters also seized about 250 hostages, Israel says. Israel vowed to crush Hamas in response, and launched a retaliatory military campaign that included heavy aerial bombardment and a siege of the territory.The campaign killed at least 20,674 people, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry.On the Monday, some residents of Al-Maghazi refugee camp returned to the ruins of their homes after strikes the previous day by the Gaza health ministry. said at least 70 people were killed. AFP was not able to independently verify that toll.Zeyad Awad said that there was no evacuation warning before the strikes. “What should we do? We are civilians, living peacefully and only want safety and security,” he said. “But we are suddenly hit. by Israeli warplanes without any warning.” The WHO team visited a hospital that treated the victims of the Al-Maghazi strikes. The “team heard side accounts shared by health workers and victims”, the United Nations health agency chief executive Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on social media.” One child was lost his whole family in the camp strike. A nurse in the hospital suffered the same loss,” he said. Sean Casey, WHO emergency medical team coordinator who joined the mission to the hospital, described the fate of his Nine-year-old of age receiving treatment that was expected to die.”He was crossing the street in front of the shelter where his family is staying and the building next to him blew up,” he said. The Israeli army said it was “reviewing the incident”, adding that it was “committed to international law including taking feasible measures to minimize harm to civilians”.- ‘Real hunger’ – Areas are large parts of Gaza in ruins and its 2.4 million people suffering shortages of water, food, fuel. and medicine, which was alleviated only by the limited arrival of aid trucks. Without holding empty containers, many Gazans waited on the street in Rafah, in southern Gaza, to distribute food. “Now there is real hunger. My children are dying of hunger,” said one of them, Nour Ismail. About 1.9 million Gazans have been displaced, according to the UN, many of them fleeing to the south. and crowded into shelters or makeshift tents in the winter cold. Gaza is the only way forward,” said the head of the UN refugee agency, Filippo Grandi. In a Likud meeting on Monday, Netanyahu said he was ready to support the voluntary migration of civilians out of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli newspaper reported Haaretz. He told party members that “our problem is not to allow an exit, but that there will be countries willing to accept an exit”. Hamas rejected any discussion of such a plan as “absurd”. the Palestinians “to be deported and displaced. There can be no exile and there is no other option than to stay on our land”, he said in a statement.- ‘Free our Hostage’ – Netanyahu addressed parliament on Monday during special session about the 129 hostages Israel says remain in Gaza. He was joking with families who were waiting for the return of their loved ones after 80 days in captivity. “Now! Now!” relatives sang as Netanyahu said Israeli forces needed “more time” to increase military pressure on Hamas, which he argued would help secure the release of the captives, a spokesman announced early Tuesday morning two another death. “Foreign army of military force. There was no immediate comment from Israel, which has been increasingly hitting targets in Syria since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. , leading the United States to build a naval task force to deter missile and drone strikes.burs-smw/kma
