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“No one can stop us, not even The Hague”: Netanyahu; warns that war in Gaza will continue

  • January 14, 2024
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On the eve of 100 days of continuous attacks on the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the attacks must continue despite pressure from the

“No one can stop us, not even The Hague”: Netanyahu;  warns that war in Gaza will continue

On the eve of 100 days of continuous attacks on the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the attacks must continue despite pressure from the families of the 136 hostages remaining in the Gaza Strip.

“The war will not end because of The Hague or because of the threats of the axis of evil,” the prime minister said in a televised address to the nation ahead of the 100th day of the war in the US. A loopwhere already Israeli bombings killed more than 23,800 people.

Netanyahu was referring to both the genocide trial opened this week at the International Court of Justice in The Hague at the request of South Africa, which is demanding an immediate ceasefire as a precaution; and numerous attacks inside Israel by Hamas, the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, and Yemen’s Houthis, groups backed by Iran.

Netanyahu promises to increase budget to finance war

“We are on the path to victory and will not stop until we achieve it.

“There is nothing that can compromise us, and there is no one who can stop us,” said the Israeli prime minister, who promised to increase the budget to finance the war.

Israeli Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi struck a similar line, saying the army today approved a plan by the Southern Command operating in the Gaza Strip to continue fighting and “increase military pressure on Hamas.”

“This pressure, and only this pressure, made it possible to return many hostages,” he said.

Thousands of Israelis demand Netanyahu’s resignation

Several thousand protesters in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Netanya and Caesarea demanded Netanyahu’s resignation, unhappy with his leadership and his refusal to negotiate a new truce to free the remaining captives.

Meanwhile, Israeli attacks continue in the Gaza Strip and the humanitarian crisis worsens.

135 Gazans have died in Israeli attacks in recent hours

At least 135 people have been killed in recent hours, most of them in the Khan Younis region where the fighting is concentrated, raising the death toll in nearly 100 days of war to more than 23,800 – in addition to about 8,000 bodies. under the rubble – and 60,300 wounded.

The Gaza government said 1,300 truckloads of food were needed daily to meet the food needs of 800,000 people facing famine in the north of the strip alone, which has been mired in unprecedented disaster and destruction.

“This war has affected 2.3 million people, the entire population of Gaza.

“Many will be left with lifelong scars, both physical and psychological,” condemned the UN Refugee Agency (UNRWA), whose saturated centers host more than 1.4 million Gazans who live in “inhumane conditions” without food. hygiene and privacy.

“The mass death, destruction, displacement, hunger, loss and pain of the last 100 days have tarnished our common humanity,” the UN agency lamented. (EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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