The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamín Netanyahu, has summoned this Sunday a press conference with the international press in which he has tried to describe the situation of the Jewish State as that of a kind of older brother who only seeks to help his Palestinian neighbors. Netanyahu appeared before the media in the face of the increase in both internal and external pressure and with a new front in Israel: the high controls of his army.
Already at the beginning of his appearance, during a brief statement prior to the questions of the journalists, the right -wing political leader said that he was going to use this opportunity to “point out the lies” and tell the truth, after which he insisted on emphasizing that the Hamás Islamist armed group “still has thousands of armed terrorists” in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli prime minister has repeated on numerous occasions that his army has designated “safe areas”, although they have been constantly bombarded and attacked, and has tried to emphas Palestinians (UNRWA).
Netanyahu has also denied that Israel has a policy to promote famine, which has already caused dozens of deaths among the Gazaties. According to data offered by the health authorities of Gaza this Sunday, a total of 217 people have died due to hunger and malnutrition, including a hundred children.
“The Gazatis are begging us and are begging the world to be released from Hamas,” says Netanyahu, who has described the armed group as “a genocidal organization.” After that, he insisted: “Israel's goal is not to occupy Gaza, but to free her.” The prime minister has also said that “war can end” if Hamas frees the hostages and agrees to deliver the weapons.
After that, the prime minister has insisted on journalists on the idea that Israel “has no alternative” and must “end work” and “defeat Hamas.” Benjamín Netanyahu recognized during his appearance that Israeli soldiers already control between 70% and 75% of Gaza's territory and points to two areas allegedly controlled by Hamas in the center of the strip and the city of Gaza. This Friday, the Israeli security cabinet approved the taking of this city and the refugee fields of Centro de Gaza after the high -command of the army refused to accept a plan for the total occupation of the strip.
Even within the Israeli army there are already critical voices with Netanyahu's latest decisions, such as that of the Army Chief, who had expressed his opposition because that would lead to the troops to prolong their operations in Gaza and could be trapped in a war war with Militanians of Hamas.
To the military voices is added the pressure in the streets, with tens of thousands of Israeli, going out to demonstrate to request an agreement with the Islamist armed group. Precisely this Sunday, a group of relatives of Israeli hostages in the hands of Hamas has proposed the call for a general strike in the country for next Sunday and has been seconded by the different leaders of the opposition to Netanyahu. “Next Sunday we will stop and say: 'Enough, stop the war, return to the hostages.' Gaza
During his presentation, the head of the Israeli Executive has indicated five principles that would be necessary to “conclude the war”: the disarmament of Hamas, the return of all hostages (living or dead), the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip, the taking of Gaza's “security control” by the Israeli army and the establishment of an “alternative civil administration”.
Netanyahu has also advanced that, according to his point of view, in this hypothetical political administration would not participate neither Hamas nor the Palestinian authority, recognized by most countries such as the legitimate government of the Palestinians. Members of the extreme right of the Israeli Executive as Minister Ben Gvir have already announced after their appearance that will take an initiative to “dismantle” the Palestinian authority.
Netanyahu defended that this is “the best way” to end the war. He also added during the responses to the journalists that Israel “will allow civilians to go to designated safe areas” where they will presumably be offered food, security and medical care. The prime minister also insisted that Israel will allow civilians to “abandon the fighting areas to the designated safe areas safe.”
Asked about the difficulties for entry of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip, Netanyahu said that “hundreds of trucks have entered Gaza” despite the increasingly widespread hambruna images in the area and the more than a hundred deceased, several of them minors, for this reason. Benjamín Netanyahu has denied on more than one occasion that Israel is applying a “famine policy” or genocide. “No one in Gaza would have survived after two years of war,” says Prime Minister to justify this statement.
The conservative political leader also said that Israel has sent “millions of text messages and calls” to notify civilians before an attack and accused Hamas of being “the cause of the humanitarian aid crisis” in Gaza for having “stolen” help for civilians. He did not mention the hundreds of deaths for shots of the Israeli army in the humanitarian aid delivery areas established by the American NGO Humanitarian Foundation of Gaza despite being asked directly for it.
War propaganda
Asked if Israel is “losing” the war of propaganda, Netyahu has come to say that the algorithms “harm” Israel, despite which numerous media have reported in recent years of preventive censors Even Grindr to terms such as 'Palestine', 'Genocide', 'Extermination' or 'Zionism'.
The Israeli political leader has also attacked the international press for having “bought” what he describes as “the hook” of Hamas's propaganda in reference to the images of Gazatis, many of them minors, which have been published by different media worldwide. Netanyahu has come to show some of these covers with superimposed labels with the word 'fake' (false, in English) in a clear example of war propaganda.
In addition, he has advanced that his government will advance with a judicial action against the New York Times for using the image of a hungry child on its cover that “also had other health problems.” Netanyahu says that the child's mother and brother are “healthy” and alleges that the newspaper has “buried” a correction. The prime minister has compared the coverage of the famine in Gaza for weeks with “the evil lies that were told about the Jews in the Middle Ages.”
Benjamín Netanyahu also had the opportunity to respond directly to the last decision of the German executive who has suspended part of his armament shipments to Israel after the decision to militarily occupy the city of Gaza and the refugee fields of the center of the strip. Netanyahu said that Germany is a “good friend” of Israel but accused the chancellor of “falling under the pressure of false television reports” and “the internal pressure of several groups” and veiledly accused the German government of “having chosen to forget on October 7”.
After that, he assured that “numerous European leaders” tell him privately that what Israel does in Gaza “is the right thing”, and that they are not able to recognize it in public “is their problem.” He took the opportunity to compare Hamas militants with “Nazis” and “neo -Nazis” and ended his answer to the question of a German journalist with a disturbing statement: “Do you know when your safe policy will change? When Israel Venza”.
The Israeli prime minister has also taken advantage of the end of his appearance to review the political division between the Palestinian population, when he has recognized that Hamas “had, de facto, a state”, but that he used it to launch “a war of terror against Israel.” “They do not want a Palestinian state, they just want to destroy the Israeli State” and “they refuse to recognize the Israeli State,” Netanyahu defended to justify their last military escalation.