Netanyahu says Israeli troops will enter Rafah “with or without” truce in Gaza

The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahusaid this Tuesday that the Israeli Army will enter Rafa eliminate the four battalions of Hamas that supposedly remain in the south of Gaza strip“with or without an agreement” of truce.

“We will enter Rafa and we will eliminate the battalions of Hamas there, with or without an agreement,” Netanyahu said during a meeting with family members of people kidnapped and victims of the October 7 attack.

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His words come as Hamas studies the mediators’ latest truce proposal in He Cairoand which contemplates a 40-day ceasefire and the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for hostages in Linkaccording to Israeli media.

“The idea that we will stop the war before achieving all its objectives is out of the question.“, said the president at the meeting, alluding to the three objectives repeated in these almost seven months of war: return the hostagesend the military force of Hamas and ensure that Gaza stops being a “threat” for Israel.

International organizations and much of the international community, including U.Swarned that an offensive against Rafa It would mean an even greater humanitarian catastrophe than the one Palestinians are already suffering in the enclave, with little food, clean water and a devastated health system.

In Rafa 1.4 million Gazans live in poverty, most of them displaced from the north during a war in which they have already died more than 34,500 people in 207 days offensive, where almost 80% of the population remains displaced.

Some far-right ministers from the Israeli coalition government have suggested that they could withdraw their support for Netanyahu’s coalition government if the president does not give the green light to the operation in Israel. Rafafor which the Israeli Army designed an alleged offensive plan at the end of February.

Source: Elcomercio

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