Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday evening outlined his country’s stance regarding the ongoing conflict in Gaza, emphasizing that Israel has no ambitions to permanently occupy Gaza or displace its civilian populace.
“I want to make a few points absolutely clear,” he said.
“Israel has no intention of permanently occupying Gaza or displacing its civilian population.
Israel is fighting Hamas terrorists, not the Palestinian population, and we are doing so in full compliance with international law.
The IDF is doing its utmost to minimize civilian casualties, while Hamas is doing its utmost to maximize them by using Palestinian civilians as human shields.
The IDF urges Palestinian civilians to leave war zones by disseminating leaflets, making phone calls, providing safe passage corridors, while Hamas prevents Palestinians from leaving at gunpoint and often, with gunfire.
Our goal is to rid Gaza of Hamas terrorists and free our hostages. Once this is achieved Gaza can be demilitarized and deradicalized, thereby creating a possibility for a better future for Israel and Palestinians alike.”
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except that almost all palis either support terror or are terrorists
Netanyahu is such a meshuganah. I can’t take him. Israeli soldiers and civilian lives are worth nothing to him in his quest to make Israel look like the good guy to the world which always hated Jews. If you win a war you get the land, this is in ALL the time, this is how ALL countries. It is not occupation when you take land from people who attacked you and you won the wars. It is not an occupation to rule over a people who kill your citizens at every chance they get to. In this case, the Fakestinians never even ruled the land before Israel gave it to them.
Netanyahu knows good and well that the vast majority of the Fakestinian population supports Hamas . How dare he say that Israel doesn’t want to “occupy” Gaza! Israel needs to stay on THEIR land that they acquired legally TWICE and make sure that terrorism can’t flourish there again.
“Israel Has No Intention Of Permanently Occupying Gaza”
Why not? It’s our land after all. It doesn’t belong to the Arabs. Even if they weren’t all Nazis, they would deserve to lose territory just like Germany lost after WW2.
But at any rate he said “permanently”. There will have to be a years-long occupation anyway, just like the allied occupation of Germany and Japan. Don’t forget that the US occupied Okinawa until 1972