Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday there could be no permanent cease-fire in Gaza until Hamas was destroyed, casting doubt on a key part of a truce proposal according to Joe Biden.
This from newsmax.com.
Biden said Friday:
Israel had proposed a deal involving an initial six-week truce with a partial Israeli military withdrawal and the release of some hostages while the two sides negotiated a permanent end to hostilities.
However, in a statement Saturday, Netanyahu said:
[A]ny notion that Israel would agree [to] a permanent ceasefire before the destruction of Hamas’ military and governing capabilities [was] a non-starter.
Peace talks have sputtered for months, with Israel demanding the release of all hostages and the destruction of Hamas, while Hamas demands a permanent cease-fire, the withdrawal of Israeli forces and the release of many Palestinian prisoners.
Hamas said Friday it was ready to engage:
[P]ositively and in a constructive manner.
But one of the group’s senior officials, Mahmoud Mardawi, said in a Qatari television interview that it had not yet received the details of the proposal.
He said:
No agreement can be reached before the demand for the withdrawal of the occupation army and a ceasefire is met.
The soldiers of Islam—again—rekindled this conflagration when they rampaged into southern Israel from Gaza, ruthlessly killing, torturing to death more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and seizing more than 250 as hostages.
[And] Hamas remains committed to Israel’s destruction.
Israel’s ground and air campaign in Gaza has destroyed much of Hamas’ infrastructure.
Netanyahu has defied calls from world leaders by sending Israeli troops into Rafah.
From Israel:
Rafah, on the frontier with Egypt, [is] the last main stronghold for Hamas in Gaza and [our] campaign to destroy the group could not succeed until [Rafah is clear of Hamas].
Netanyahu’s National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said Wednesday he expected the war in Gaza to continue for the rest of 2024 at least.
In the United States, The Regime is experiencing pressure to stop the war. Political survival is the number one goal of the communist/globalist crime syndicate.
Contrarily, inside Israel, there is widespread support for the war in Gaza with pressure being put upon the governing coalition to bring back the remaining hostages.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid urged Netanyahu to agree to a hostages and ceasefire deal, saying his party would support it even if right-wing factions in the governing coalition rebelled, meaning a deal would likely pass in parliament.
Lapid said in a social media post on Saturday:
The government of Israel cannot ignore … Biden’s consequential speech. There is a deal on the table and it should be made.
Mediators have previously pushed for the two sides to agree to a sustained period of calm as a compromise.
Finding language to describe an end to hostilities has proven a major sticking point throughout.
Israel says a permanent ceasefire is not possible against a group that wants to destroy it.
Hamas says it will not agree to any deal that allows Israel’s military campaign in Gaza to continue.
