Israel’s Defense Minister Says Gaza City Could Be Destroyed
DEIR AL-Balah, Gaza Strip (AP) -Israeli Defense Minister on Friday, while preparing a expanded attack in the region, Hamas warned that the city of Gaza could be destroyed unless he accepts the conditions of Israel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the army would give the authority to establish a major operation to seize the Gaza City, and Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that the largest city of the settlement could be reduced in the war on the war that the largest city of the settlement could be “Rafah and Beit Hanoun”.
Katz wrote Katz until the gates of Hell will be opened in the minds of Hamas’s murderers and rapists in Gaza – until the Israeli accepted the conditions of ending the war, Kat Katz wrote.
He rearranged Israel’s cease -fire demands: the release of all hostages and the fully disarmed of Hamas. Hamas said he would release the prisoners to end the war, but refused to be disarmed from the creation of the Palestinian state.
Large -scale operation in Gaza It can start in days.
Gaza City is the military and rule of Hamas on what Israel believes is a comprehensive tunnel network. It also contains hundreds of thousands of civilians and still contains the critical infrastructure and part of the health facilities.
Hamas said he accepted at the beginning of this week Armistice suggestion from Arab mediatorsWhich – if accepted by Israel – can foresee the attack. The parties do not negotiate directly and similar announcements were made in the past that did not lead to fever.
While the proposal summarizes a gradual agreement including hostage and prisoner exchanges and the withdrawal of Israeli troops, negotiations continue with a longer -term ceasefire. Earlier this year, the leaders of Israel resisted these terms after the divisions in the coalition of Netanyahu and abandoning a similar agreement in the midst of the strong opposition from the right.
Many Israelis are afraid that an attack can sue about 20 hostages that are still alive after the 7 October 2023 attack of Hamas. Aid groups and international leaders warn that Gaza will worsen the human crisis.
Logistics that evacuates civilians is expected to be intimidating. Many calm, since there is no safe in Gaza anywhere, he says that repetitive displacement is meaningless, and the medical groups warn Israel that their calls to carry patients south cannot be processed and that they do not have facilities.
However, Netanyahu argued that the attack was the most precise way to release the prisoners and crush Hamas.
“These two things – defeat Hamas and release all our hostages – go hand in hand,” while visiting a command center near Southern Israel on Thursday.
Metz reported from Jerusalem.
