He doesn’t give up an inch of land. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video on Sunday that he “categorically” rejected Palestinian Hamas’s terms for the release of the hostages after the latter released a report on the Oct. 7 attack.
“I categorically reject the terms of surrender of the Hamas monsters,” which demand “the end of the war, the withdrawal of our forces from the Gaza Strip” and “the release of all murderers and rapists,” Netanyahu said.
One hundred hostages left
This Sunday, Hamas confirmed in a rare document of nearly 20 pages that Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was a “necessary step” and a “normal response” to “all Israeli plots against the Palestinian people.” The attack on military posts, community villages and music festival participants left more than 1,140 people dead, most of them civilians, according to an Agence France-Presse tally based on Israeli officials.
About 250 people were also kidnapped and taken to Gaza, including about 100 who were released in late November during a short truce. According to Israel, 132 hostages are still being held in the territory, of whom 28 are believed to have died. The Palestinian armed movement, classified as terrorist by the United States and the European Union, is demanding an “immediate end to Israeli aggression,” while Israel, seeking to “destroy” the Islamist movement in Gaza, refuses to stop fighting without the release of the hostages.
For his part, the leader of the movement, Ismail Haniyeh, based in Qatar, discussed on Saturday in Turkey with the head of Turkish diplomacy, Hakan Fidan, “the early establishment of a ceasefire in Gaza, increased humanitarian assistance, the release of hostages and a two-state solution to achieve permanent peace,” – Diplomatic sources say.
Source: Le Parisien
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