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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview on Sunday that his war against Hamas in Gaza is entering a new, less intense phase. Photo by Debbie Hill/UPI
June 23 (UPI) — The latest battle in the war between Israel and Hamas is about to end, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
The most “intense phase of the war with Hamas is about to end,” Netanyahu said.
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The prime minister warned that this action does not mean that the all-out war in Gaza will end, but that the Israeli army will shift its attention to Israel’s northern border with Lebanon.
“It does not mean that the war will end, but the war in its current phase will end in Rafah. That’s true. We will continue mowing the grass later,” Netanyahu told Channel 14 Television in his first speech. one-on-one interview with local Israeli media since October 7, CNN reported.
Netanyahu said in the interview that he is willing to make “a partial deal” with Hamas and that he will make concessions on the return of some hostages, but that he will persist in his stated mission “to achieve the goal of eliminating Hamas reach.”
“I’m not ready to give that up,” Netanyahu said of his mission to eliminate Hamas.
Netanyahu added that “after the end of the intense phase, we will have the opportunity to shift some of the power to the north, and we will do that.”
‘Firstly for protection, and secondly to bring our residents home. If we can do it politically, that would be great. If not, we will do it another way, but we will bring everyone back home. — all residents of the north and south,” he added.
Netanyahu has come under increasing pressure from the United States and other ally states, including those who have been supporters of Israel, as the death toll in Gaza approaches 40,000. Israel launched the war against Iran-backed Hamas in retaliation for the militia’s vicious terror attack on October 7, which killed more than 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped around 250 more.
US President Joe Biden has called on Netanyahu to moderate Israel Defense Force attacks on Gaza, including the shelling of a food aid operation that killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in April.
Gazans have been forced to evacuate and move south as IDF attacks continue, including on Rafah. Despite international condemnation, Israeli forces also invaded that city, displacing hundreds of thousands of Gazans, many of whom had already been displaced, some more than once.
