▲ A Palestinian mother tries to feed her baby amid rubble, yesterday in southern Gaza.Photo Afp
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La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, December 10, 2024, p. 21
Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated this Monday that he will not stop now the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, to prevent the Palestinian Islamist movement from rebuild.
If we stop the war now, Hamas will rise again, rebuild and attack us again, and we don’t want to go back to that.Netanyahu declared at a press conference.
Following the unprecedented October 7, 2023 attack launched by Hamas in southern Israel initiated from the neighboring Gaza Strip, Netanyahu vowed to destroy the Islamist movement and his army launched a devastating offensive in the Palestinian territory.
We define the objective as the annihilation of Hamas, the elimination of its military capabilities and power, so that it cannot be reestablished and that the catastrophe of October 7 is not repeated.Netanyahu added.
The isolation of Hamas offers a new opportunity to advance an agreement that will bring back our hostageshe assured.
Civilian casualties
The attack on October 7 caused the death of 1,206 people on the Israeli side, most of them civilians, according to an AFP calculation based on official figures, which includes the dead hostages.
That day, 251 people were kidnapped in Israeli territory. In total, 96 remain hostages in Gaza, among them 34 were declared dead by the army.
Netanyahu met with relatives of the hostages yesterday and told them that the fall of the regime [del presidente sirio Bashar] Al Assad, who also welcomed Israel’s determined actions against Hezbollah and Hamas, can help move toward a hostage return agreementaccording to a statement from his office.
Negotiations for a year for a truce and the release of Palestinian hostages and prisoners have been unsuccessful.
The Israeli offensive has caused more than 44,758 deaths in the Gaza Strip, mostly civilians, according to data from the Hamas Ministry of Health for Gaza, considered reliable by the United Nations.
Yesterday, at least two Palestinians were killed in a drone attack by the Israeli army against a town located north of the town of Tubas, in the reoccupied West Bank, the Palestinian authorities reported. Last night it was reported that another Tel Aviv attack killed 30 people in Gaza.
The Israeli military announced the deaths of seven soldiers in Lebanon, where a ceasefire with Hezbollah was implemented on November 27, and the Gaza Strip. Four soldiers from the same battalion died yesterday in Lebanon, the Israeli armed forces said without giving further details.
three other soldiers died in combat in the north of the Gaza Strip, according to the same source. His death brings the number of Israeli soldiers killed in the Palestinian territory to 384 since the start of the Israeli ground offensive on October 27, 2023.