Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today welcomed “the appropriate position” of the United States in the UN Security Council and insisted that Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip to eliminate Hamas will continue.
“Other countries must understand that you cannot, on the one hand, support the elimination of Hamas and, on the other, call for an end to the war, which would prevent the elimination of Hamas,” Netanyahu said, a day after the United States. The United States vetoes a UN resolution calling for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip.
“Therefore, Israel will continue its just war to eliminate Hamas,” said the Israeli prime minister, in a video released by his office, as the 64th day of the military offensive in the Gaza Strip continues.
After a surprise attack by Hamas on Israeli territory on October 7, which left 1,400 dead and at least 126 hostages, Israel began launching a ground offensive in the north of the Gaza Strip, which this week expanded to the south and which has already caused the death of at least 17,700 Palestinians, assuming that thousands are under the rubble, according to Gaza authorities.
The Israeli Government says that the offensive aims to dismantle the Islamist group Hamas and eradicate all its power in the Palestinian enclave and, therefore, the head of the Israeli army called for “greater pressure” in that territory.
The Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip is leading to the death and surrender of numerous Hamas fighters, whose “network is collapsing,” General Herzi Halevi said at a ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
“Every day we see more and more terrorists killed, more and more terrorists injured, and in recent days we see terrorists surrender. It is a sign that their network is collapsing, a sign that we need to increase the pressure,” he said.
Nearly 1.9 million people are internally displaced in Gaza – more than 80% of the total population of 2.3 million – and more than a million of them have been evacuated to the south of the territory.
Continued attacks by Israeli forces on the enclave make the entry and distribution of humanitarian aid difficult, with daily reports of water and power shortages and outages, a situation that UN agencies consider a humanitarian disaster.
The vote on the resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire took place at the request of the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, who used an exceptional mechanism in the founding charter of the United Nations to request the intervention of the Security Council in cases of threats serious. peace and security in the world.
The United States vetoed the resolution because they argue, like Israel, that the ceasefire would help Hamas reestablish itself, cement its power and continue the war in Gaza.
Source: TSF
