Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed this Wednesday that his country has “gone on the offensive” and warned that “every member of Hamas is a dead man” as the conflict in the region continues.
“Hamas [movimento islamita palestiniano] It’s Daesh [grupo do Estado Islâmico] and we will crush and destroy them as the world destroyed Daesh.”he added during a first formal speech together with members of his war cabinet formed earlier in the day, following the agreement between the prime minister and the leader of the Israeli opposition, Benny Gantz.
In addition to Netanyahu and Gantz, the Cabinet also includes current Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and two other senior officials who will serve as observers.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant assured that Hamas “will disappear from the earth.”
‘We cannot accept that Israeli children and babies are being murdered and everything continues as usual’he emphasized.
For his part, Ganzt emphasized that “the State of Israel is facing one of its most difficult moments,” with its “families murdered and kidnapped by a ruthless enemy that must be eliminated.”
“The fact that we are here united, side by side, is a very clear message to the enemy and, more importantly, it is a message to all citizens of Israel.”he added.
“We are all here together, we are all mobilized,” he guaranteed.
Under the emergency government agreement, the government will not adopt legislation or decisions unrelated to the war as long as the fighting continues.
The Israeli government is under intense public pressure to expel Hamas after militias from the Islamist movement stormed the border on Saturday and shot dead hundreds of Israelis in their homes, on the streets and at an open-air music festival.
The agreement, which comes four days after the launch of a major offensive by the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas, will be in force during the period of war declared by Netanyahu on Saturday, allowing a degree of unity to be achieved after years of bitterly divided politics, at a time when it is increasingly likely that the army will launch a ground offensive in Gaza .
Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007, launched a surprise attack on Israeli territory on October 7 under the name Operation ‘Al-Aqsa Storm’, with the launch of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed rebels overland. sea and sky.
In response, Israel bombed several Hamas facilities in that Palestinian territory from the air, in an operation it dubbed “Iron Swords.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that his country is “at war” with Hamas, which, he recalled, was internationally classified as a terrorist movement not only by Israel but also by the United States and the European Union (EU). other states.
Israel, which has completely besieged the Gaza Strip and cut off water, fuel and electricity supplies, has so far confirmed more than 1,200 dead and 3,700 injured since the start of the Hamas offensive, backed by the Lebanese Hezbollah and its Palestinian branch of the Gaza Strip. Jihad Islamic.
On the Palestinian side, the local Health Ministry confirmed this Wednesday that Israeli retaliatory attacks in Gaza caused at least 1,100 deaths and 5,339 injuries.
Source: DN
