2023-10-25 23:03:00
Netanyahu, in a file image. POOL | REUTERS
The Wall Street Journal claimed that Israel had agreed to delay the ground offensive at the request of the United States.
25 oct 2023 . Updated at 11:11 p.m.
There will be ground intervention in Gaza. This is how strict the Israeli Prime Minister was this Wednesday, Benjamin Netanyahu, after information about US pressure to delay the offensive. After making it clear that it is his Government that decides the invasion, he announced that the day of its beginning has already been determined unanimously by the war cabinet, and that they are working around the clock, day and night, to execute the objectives until victory.
Shortly after, President Joe Biden denied that he had asked Israel to postpone its land incursion into Gaza, in his first press conference after the outbreak of war.
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The statements by Netanyahu and Biden come after the American press spread the pressure from Washington for a postponement. The last one was The Wall Street Journalwhich assured that Israel had agreed to delay the ground offensive at the request of the United States, so that it could deploy new air defense systems to protect its troops deployed in the Middle East (from Iraq to Saudi Arabia) due to fear that the invasion of the Palestinian enclave serves as a pretext to attack their positions.
During his visit to Egypt to meet with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Emmanuel Macron considered that it would be a mistake to launch a massive ground intervention in the Strip, because it would endanger the lives of civilians without protecting Israel in the long term. For Al Sisi, it is extremely important to avoid an Israeli ground offensive against the Gaza Strip, which would cause numerous civilian victims.
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