Netayanhu insists on Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza but has agreed to delay it

Israel postpones its plan to invade the Gaza Strip by land. It is the decision that seems to have been adopted by the Government of Benjamin Netanyahu, which would have agreed, according to the ‘Wall Street Journal’, to delay this entry at the request of the United States, which seeks to protect its troops before the Israeli Army enters with all its force in search of Hamas militiamen.

In his statement this Wednesday, the Israeli Prime Minister appeared to speak precisely about this ground offensive, which he has taken for granted and has denied that he is going to explain the “reasons” he may have for carrying it out. “I will not specify when or the reasons that are taken into account“, he stated.

However, there are doubts surrounding this information, since another Pentagon source cited by Al Jazeera denies that the land invasion has been delayedadding that Washington does not determine the operations of Israeli forces.

This novelty comes in the middle of a war that does not stop and an escalation that is not only military, but also diplomatic. Today, there have been exchanges of fire between Israel and Lebanon, with rocket fire and the launch of an anti-tank missile. According to Israel, two “terrorist cells” have been attacked. Regarding that missile, Hezbollah has claimed responsibility, announcing that it caused deaths and injuries, information that Israel denies.

On this day, the meeting of the leaders of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollahwhich have been seen in Beirut to agree to “continue the coordination and monitoring of events on a daily and permanent basis,” according to Hezbollah. Meanwhile, the victims in Gaza continue to increase. Israel’s attacks have already killed more than 6,500 peopleof which 2,700 were children.

Israel points to the UN and Erdogan comes into play

The diplomatic escalation is born from some words of Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the UN, who qualified this Wednesday. What he said was that Hamas’ “horrible” attacks “did not come out of nowhere”since “the Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation“. Guterres, “shocked” by the repercussion of his words, has explained that the controversy comes from a “distortion” of his words, making it clear that he did not “justify” the “acts of terrorism” of Hamas, but rather “the opposite.” .

“I think it is necessary to make things clear, especially out of respect for the victims and their families,” he said before the UN Security Council. In response, Israel has decided block visas of UN representativesconsidering Guterres’ words a “disgrace.”

This has been considered by the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, who believes that the secretary general “distorts reality.” “Yesterday he clearly said that the Hamas massacre ‘did not come out of nowhere.’ Everyone can understand very well the meaning of these words, which Israel is guilty of Hamas’ actions or, at the very least, that they represent an understanding or a justification on the part of the secretary general of the massacre,” he criticizes.

For Erdan, “the time has come to teach them a lesson“, a threat that raises the diplomatic tone of the conflict. Meanwhile, another international leader, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has stated that Hamas “is not a terrorist organization.” “We have no problems with the State of Israel, but we have never approved of the atrocities committed by Israel and the way it acts as an organization, rather than as a State,” he criticizes.

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lior Haiat has disputed these words, calling Hamas a “despicable terrorist organization that brutally and intentionally murders babies, children, women and the elderly, takes civilians hostage and uses its own people as human shields.”

Sánchez shows his support for Guterres

In Spain, the acting president of the Government, Pedro Sanchezhas shown “all the love and support” to António Guterres, betting on a ceasefire in the conflict “to allow aid to enter Gaza.

“Having said that we condemn the terrorist attacks in Israel and have defended legitimate defense within International Law, I believe that the images we are seeing of deaths of Palestinian civilians, of suffering and humanitarian disaster, I join all the voices and in particular to that of the UN Secretary General for a ceasefire to allow aid into Gaza“, has transferred the acting President of the Government.