"This war has revealed to the world what Israel has always known: Iran was behind the attack against us through its proxies." Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu said this, adding "since October 7 we have been attacked on many fronts by Iran's affiliates: Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, the militias in Iraq and Syria". "Israel - he added - is ready, in defense and attack, for any attempt to hit us, from anywhere".
"I made it clear to the international community: there will be no ceasefire without the return of the hostages," Netanyahu said at the government meeting. “This is the policy of the Israeli government and I welcome the fact that the Biden administration made clear the other day that this is also its position.” "I would like to clarify one more thing: it is not Israel that is preventing an agreement but Hamas. Its extreme demands are aimed at putting an end to the war and leaving the Islamic faction intact", he added.
"I have made it clear to the international community: there will be no ceasefire without the return of the hostages." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this at the government meeting. "This is the policy of the Israeli government and I welcome the fact that the Biden administration made it clear the other day that this is his position too." "I would like to clarify one more thing: it is not Israel that is preventing an agreement but Hamas. Its extreme demands are aimed at putting an end to the war and leaving the Islamic faction intact", he added. "Surrendering to the demands of Hamas - continued the prime minister who recalled the six months since the attack - will allow him to try to repeat the crimes of 7 October again and again, as he promised to do". He then underlined that Hamas "hopes that external and internal pressure will push Israel to give in to these extreme demands. It won't happen. Israel is ready for an agreement, Israel is not ready to surrender." "Instead of directing international pressure against Israel, which only leads Hamas to harden its positions, the pressure of the international community should be directed - he denounced - against Hamas. This will favor the release of the abductees." “We are determined for complete victory to release all our abductees, to complete the elimination of Hamas in the entire Gaza Strip, including Rafah, and to ensure that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu made an appeal for "the unity of the country" denouncing, in reference to the demonstrations across Israel against the government's policy, that "in these hours an extreme and violent minority is trying to drag the country into division" . "There is nothing our enemies want more. They would like internal division and gratuitous hatred to stop us just short of victory," he added.
The Biden administration is increasingly frustrated with Israel's military conduct and "this was the central message that the president delivered to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the phone call in recent days.
They must do more". This was stated by the spokesman for the White House National Security Council, John Kirby.
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