Reported by: By Robert Plummer,
BBC News
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the “intense phase” of resisting in Rafah in southern Gaza is nearly over, but that this does not imply that the war is going to cease, quoted by BBC NEWS.
He said, “The war would persist until Hamas was entirely propelled from power.”
He added that the “Israeli military would soon be able to redeploy troops to the border with Lebanon, where exchanges of fire with Hezbollah have been escalating.”
Mr Netanyahu also again abandoned the argument that the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority should conduct Gaza in the position of Hamas.
In an Israeli television interview, he claimed, “In the end, you will have to do two things: You will need the ongoing military demilitarisation by the Israel Defense Forces, and you will need to establish a civil administration; I hope that with the support and management of certain countries in the region, I think this is the right way to move forward.”
“I’ll tell you what I’m not ready to do; I’m not ready to establish a Palestinian state there; I’m not ready to hand it over to the Palestinian Authority. I’m not ready to do that.”
Citizens of Rafah claimed there had been more conflicts in the city. At the same time, Israeli air strikes on Gaza City are conveyed to have killed the Hamas-run health ministry’s director of emergency services.
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An aid distribution centre was also pierced: the IDF stated Hamas was utilising it.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant is commencing a visit to Washington to discuss the war in Gaza and the rising strains with Hezbollah, which Iran champions.
On 7 October, the Israeli military established a movement to eliminate Hamas in reaction to the Palestinian armed group’s remarkable attack on southern Israel, during which about 1,200 people – mostly civilians – were killed and 251 others were carried hostage.
More than 37,551 people have been overpowered in Gaza since then, as per reports of the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry. Its formations do not discriminate between civilians and combatants, but it had reportedly determined 14,680 children, women and older adults among the dead by the end of April.
