Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized Palestinian Authority leader Mahmud Abbas, making it clear that Israel will not allow him to govern Gaza if Israeli forces get rid of the Palestinian enclave of Hamas. These are statements by Palestinian diplomacy, which denied that Hamas was responsible for the attack on the music festival on October 7.
‘It is not enough that Abu Mazen for 44 days [outro nome pelo qual é conhecido Abbas] Refuse to condemn the terrible massacre, now your people deny this massacre and blame it on Israel,” Netanyahu said in a video quoted by Haaretz. It was this Israeli newspaper that said in an article about the October 7 attack that Hamas did not intend to attack the Reim music festival, taking advantage of the circumstances. And that an investigation revealed that an Israeli military helicopter shot at the terrorists and hit some festival goers. However, the Palestinians wrongly claim that the newspaper said that all 364 people who died were hit by fire from Israeli helicopters.
“The Holocaust denier also denies the massacre between Hamas and ISIS,” the prime minister added, drawing comparisons with the Palestinian terror group and the Islamic State. “The day after we eliminate Hamas, we will not allow whoever heads the civilian administration of Gaza to deny terrorism, support terrorism, pay for terrorism and educate his children for terrorism and the destruction of the State of Israel,” stressed he.
US President Joe Biden wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post newspaper on Saturday arguing that the Gaza Strip should be reunited with the West Bank under a single government structure, controlled by a revived Palestinian Authority, while working towards a two-state system. solution.
Agreement soon?
The same Washington Post revealed that Israel and Hamas are on the verge of an agreement, negotiated with US support, to allow the release of dozens of women and children kidnapped in Gaza in exchange for a five-day break in battle.
“I believe we are close, perhaps closer than we have been since the beginning of this process, to completing this agreement,” Jon Finer, White House deputy national security adviser, told NBC’s Meet the Press. Israeli envoy to the US Michael Herzog said he “hopes” that a significant number of hostages can be released “in the coming days.”
Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said at a news conference that the obstacles are “very small” and that “practical and logistical” issues actually remain to be resolved. Qatar has used its good relations with Hamas (the terrorist group’s political leadership is based in the country) and Israel to help with the negotiations, after helping to release the only four hostages that were already free.
Israel released video footage from Al-Shifa Hospital showing that two hostages were taken there on the 7th, and details of a tunnel under the hospital at least 55 meters long. Israel claims Hamas is hiding one of its command posts there, having detained 100 suspected terrorists in recent days. Hundreds of people have left the space since Friday, with several premature babies taken to another hospital in southern Gaza.
Source: DN
