Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday that Israel would not launch a military operation in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, as long as the population was “locked in place.” However, he will not accept a peace that would make Israel “weak” in the face of its neighbors in the Middle East, while talks on a possible truce in the Gaza Strip are currently underway after more than five months of war.
“If we are offered an agreement, a path to peace, that makes Israel weak and unable to defend itself (…), it will set the world back,” he told the press after a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Launching an operation in Rafah “is not something we will do while leaving the population locked in place. In fact, we will do the opposite,” he said, while the prospect of such an attack is feared internationally in the city, where nearly 1.5 million Palestinians are concentrated, according to the UN.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called on Sunday for a “hostage agreement and a lasting ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip. He said he understood “the families of the hostages who say it is time to reach an agreement to rescue the captives.”
Source: Le Parisien
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