“Israel must maintain full control of the security of the Strip to ensure that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel, and this conflicts with the Palestinian demand for sovereignty.”
This - according to Netanyahu's office - is the position reiterated by Benjamin Netanyahu in yesterday's conversation with Joe Biden.
Netanyahu - the office added, referring to reports that Netanyahu did not oppose the two-state solution - "repeated his consistent position for years" also announced at a press conference the day before the meeting with Biden.
Iranian guard leader killed in Israeli attack in Syria
The head of intelligence in Syria of the Revolutionary Guards, the Iranian Ideological Army, his deputy and two other Iranians were killed in an Israeli strike that targeted a building in Damascus, local Tehran media reported.
“In an attack carried out by the Zionist regime, the head of the intelligence of the Guardians in Syria and his deputy, as well as two other members of this force, were killed,” the local Mehr agency said.
The number of victims of the Israeli attack on Damascus rises to ten.
"The death toll has risen to 10 after the recovery of the bodies still trapped under the rubble," the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, told AFP.
The head of intelligence of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Syria and his deputy also died in the attack.
Hamas, 'Biden has only illusions about the Palestinian state'
“Selling the illusion that Biden is trying to talk about Palestinian statehood does not deceive our people.”
Hamas representative Izzat al-Richiq said this on Telegram, thus rejecting the US president's claims about a Palestinian state.
"Biden - he added - is a full partner in the war of genocide and our people expect nothing good from him".
Borrell, 'Israel financed Hamas to weaken the PA'
“Hamas was funded by the Israeli government in an attempt to weaken the Palestinian Authority.”
This is a passage from the speech that, yesterday, the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Josep Borrell made in Valladolid, where he received an honorary degree at the university.
Words, those of Borrell, which according to the European press are destined to unleash a new controversy on the High Representative and his positions on the war in the Middle East.
"The only solution is to create two states that share the land for which they have been dying for 100 years", Borrell underlined in the Iberian city, evoking the possibility that the solution "is imposed from outside".
Israel drops leaflets south of Gaza with photos of hostages
The Israeli army dropped thousands of leaflets in southern Gaza with photos of hostages still in captivity.
This was reported by the media according to which the flyers ask residents to provide information on the whereabouts of the hostages held by terrorist groups, offering rewards.
Wafa: 'Dozens dead in Gaza due to Israeli bombings'
The Wafa news agency reported that "dozens of Palestinians, including women and children, were killed and others wounded in a salvo of Israeli artillery attacks on Gaza."
According to the same source, "a series of houses, residential buildings and apartments, and public and private properties were hit and seriously damaged."
The areas are those near Khan Yunis, in the south of the Strip.
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