Israel’s Defense Minister confirms that “Hamas is no longer recognized as a military establishment in Gaza”

2024-09-10 16:41:22

Them lack of a truce agreement is creating cracks between the Government of the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. “Hamas does not exist as a military establishment,” its Defense Minister said this Tuesday, Yoav Gallantin the umpteenth attempt to pressure to advance the negotiations. “Hamas is involved in a guerrilla war and we continue to fight against Hamas terrorists and persecute Hamas leaders,” he recalled, while defending that the cease-fire agreement and the release of hostages in Gaza would give Israel “an opportunity advice” to deal with. another security challenge. Faced with constant obstacles to dialogue that Netanyahu created, Gallant has appeared in recent weeks as loud voice in favor of an agreement between the Government.

After almost a year of war, which has taken the life of more than 41,000 Palestinians and barely allowed the return of half of the hostages kidnapped on October 7, Gallant has nothing to do with silence. Recently, he has shown his separation with Netanyahu and the far-right minister about the need for a ceasefire agreement, as Israel’s streets are demanding with increasing urgency. Gallant has become the most powerful – and practically the only – object of the Government that secures an agreement, while many ministers are in favor of continuing with military pressure. The recovery of six corpses of the young bearers – who would have been released in the first phase of an alleged agreement – at the end of last month added more pressure on the Executive with large demonstrations and daily actions demanding the agreement.

“Strategic interest”

“Achieving the agreement is also a strategic opportunity that gives us great opportunities to change the security situation the whole front“, Gallant said this Tuesday in front of foreign journalists. Bringing the tenants home was “the right thing to do,” he stressed. Hours after arguing that Hamas had ceased to exist as an organized military force in Gaza after more than 11 months of war, Gallant confronted soldiers during a military exercise. land rage in Lebanon. “The center of gravity is moving towards the north [en la frontera con el Líbano]we are nearing the end of our missions in the south [en la Franja de Gaza]”But we have a task here that we have not done, and this mission is to change the security situation and return the residents to their homes,” he told the Oded Brigade reservists deployed to the north Israel.

For days now the Minister of Defense has expressed his concern change the fighting position. After ten months of ground attacks in Gaza, the military believes it is time to use the same strategy in neighboring Lebanon to end the military threat. Hezbollah. Since last October 8, a day after the attack by Hamas that took the lives of 1,139 Israelis, this Lebanese group started launching. dies against Israel territory to build a chaotic front to help his friend Gazan. The Israeli army has always responded to these attacks. So, some 60,000 Israelis They have been displaced from their homes, like 100,000 Lebanese. Returning displaced northern residents to their homes is part of Israel’s war goals, along with disbanding Hamas and returning hostages.

ICC complete warranty

“I gave the instructions that he was waiting for in the south and I saw the forces that worked,” Gallant explained, referring to the Israeli offensive in Gaza. Those orders “will come here too and they must be prepared and you are ready to do this mission,” he told the soldiers sent to the border. “We are completing the training of the entire army command for the ground operation [en el Líbano]in every part of it,” Gallant confirmed. In the same week the Likud deputy Nissim Vaturimember of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, one trumpet of public broadcasting It is “a matter of days” before the war against all of Israel and Lebanon. When this happens, the Beirutian district of Dahiyeh, an important Hezbollah stronghold, “will be like Gaza,” he added, explaining that his battle plan will show several days of advance attacks on the positions of the Lebanese group before before starting to conquer the land.

This same Tuesday the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (CPI), Karim Khanhas asked the Pre-Trial Chamber to the issue is directly supported which has been asking since June to Netanyahu, Gallant and the leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar“with the greatest haste.” Khan considered them important because of the “crime in progress” which he mentioned at the beginning of his appeal for war crimes and crimes against humanity and what he said was the “worsening situation in Palestine.” In particular, Gallant, as Israel’s defense minister in the midst of one of the worst wars in modern times, was accused of the crimes of destructionuse of hunger as a weapon, denial of humanitarian aid y intentionally died to civilians.

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