“We will enter with all the strength”

Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that the Israeli army will enter with full strength (SA) ‘in the Gaza strip in the next few days and does not see a scenario in which Israel will cease the war, his press office announced on Tuesday, AFP reported.

The Israeli prime minister also stated that his services are currently striving to find countries willing to accept Palestinians who will leave – in very large numbers, according to him – Gaza strip.

On May 5, Israel announced a new military campaign in the Gaza strip, a campaign that provides for the ‘conquest’ of the Palestinian territory. This campaign will require the internal relocation of the ‘majority’ of its inhabitants, according to the Israeli army, who says he recalled ‘tens of thousands of reservists’.

« In the next few days, we will enter with all our strength to complete the operation and overcome Hamas, » Netanyahu said during a meeting with reserved soldiers on Monday.

‘There will be no situation where we will stop the war. A temporary armistice is possible (to ensure the issuance of hostages still in Gaza), but we will go to the end, « he added, according to a press release of the prime minister.

The head of the Israeli government also evoked the relocation of part of the population of the Gaza Strip to other countries.

‘We have set up an administration that will allow them to leave, but the problem on our side is limited to one thing: we need countries ready to receive them. We work at this time, « Netanyahu added.

‘If we give them the opportunity to leave, I tell you, over 50% will leave, even more, I think. But Hamas will not be there anymore, « Netanyahu said, recalling that one of the objectives of the war was to destroy the Palestinian Islamist Movement.

The war in the Gaza strip was triggered by the attack committed on October 7, 2023 by the Islamist Movement Hamas on the territory of Israel, an attack that made 1,218 dead by the Israeli side, most civilians, according to an AFP balance based on official data.

Of the total of the 251 kidnapped people from Israel during the Hamas attack on October 7, 57 are still held in Gaza, after Monday the Palestinian movement released Israelian-American Edan Alexander.

The Israeli reprisals made at least 52,908 dead in the Gaza strip, most civilians, according to data published on Sunday by the Ministry of Health of Hamas, considered reliable by the UN.