Israeli military bombed Hamas on Monday a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the intense phase of the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip was winding down. He stressed that the war would continue until the militant group no longer controlled the besieged Palestinian enclave.
In his first TV interview since Hamas’ October 7 assault, Netanyahu on Sunday stated that once the intense phase comes to an end, the Israeli forces would be deployed along the northern border with Lebanon, where the fighting with the Iran-backed Hezbollah group has intensified.
‘The intense phase of the fighting against Hamas is about to end’, said Netanyahu. He said, ‘This doesn’t mean that the war is about to end, but the war in its intense phase is about to end in Rafah’.
He then said that the aim was to uproot the Hamas regime in Gaza, rejecting the Palestinian militant group’s demand for a complete ceasefire. Netanyahu further stated that Israel would return its displaced citizens to their evacuated northern border communities amid fears of a full-scale war in Lebanon.
‘After the intense phase is finished, we will have the possibility to move part of the forces north. And we will do this. First and foremost for defensive purposes. And secondly, to bring our residents home’, the Israeli PM stated.
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