Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted on Thursday that there are “challenges” to the effective release of the approximately 240 hostages captured by Hamas on October 7, but promised they would all return home.
At a press conference in connection with the visit of British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, the head of Israel’s executive branch pushed for the idea that he would release all hostages and strongly criticized Hamas, “a sect that commits genocide and defends terrorism”.
“We hope to be able to free the first group [de reféns] and then we want to free them all.”he said, referring to the four-day ceasefire with Hamas, which will come into effect Friday at 7 a.m. local time (5 a.m. in Lisbon) and includes the release of 50 hostages in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners by Israel and the approval of more aid to the Gaza Strip.
“We will continue with the objectives of the war and we will eradicate Hamas, because Hamas has already promised that it will do the same again and again. It is a sect that advocates genocide and terrorism. There is no hope for peace between Israel and the Palestinians and between Israel and the Arab countries if we do not eradicate this murderous movement that threatens the future of us all.”Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu stated that this is a “broader war” involving “civilization and barbarism.”
‘The brutality we saw during the attacks [de 7 de outubro] It is the most terrible experience the Jewish people have had since the Holocaust. Just as the world came together to defeat the Nazis and Al-Qaeda after September 11th [de 2001] or the Islamic State, we must unite to defeat Hamas,” he said.
In this sense, he drew a parallel with the September 11, 2001 attacks on North American territory, stating that it is “relatively twenty times the number of September 11.”
“As if in one day 50,000 Americans were murdered and 10,000 kidnapped, including a nine-month-old baby who still can’t walk and still can’t talk but is in captivity,” he continued.
“What kind of people do these things? The answer is that they are not people, they are monsters. These monsters must disappear, and they will disappear. We will continue the war until we achieve this goal and guarantee a different future for Gaza and Gaza.” for us,” he added.
In turn, Cameron, who expressed support for Israel, thanked Netanyahu for “taking the time” to welcome him and said he wanted to visit the ‘kibbutz’ “to see the true nature of the attacks” committed by Hamas .
“We stand with the people of Israel and understand what they have been through. Today it is important that we talk about the humanitarian pause, which I see as an opportunity to free the hostages and facilitate the access of aid to Gaza. is no excuse for these types of hostage takings, and they should all be released. I hope that everyone responsible for this agreement will be able to implement it,” he stressed.
The ceasefire in the fighting between Israel and the Hamas group will come into effect on Friday morning and the first hostages will be released in the afternoon, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari announced today.
“The humanitarian pause starts on Friday at 7am (5am Lisbon time). […] and the first group of civilian hostages will be released around 4 p.m. [14:00 de Lisboa] the same day,” Majed Al-Ansari reported.
Source: DN
