Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuhas warned that Israel will have the “safety responsibility” in the Gaza Strip once they have put an end to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

“I believe that Israel will have, for an indefinite period, overall responsibility for security, because we have seen what happens when we don’t have it. When we don’t have that responsibility for security, what we have is the Hamas terror eruption on a scale that we could not imagine,” Netanyahu declared during an interview with the American network ‘ABC News’.

These statements by the Israeli Prime Minister have occurred despite the fact that the US Government has assured on numerous occasions that They will not support an occupation of the Gaza Strip.

Neither humanitarian pauses nor ceasefire

Regarding the establishment of humanitarian pauses in the enclave, the Israeli president has asserted that They will not occur until Hamas prepares to release all the hostageswhich Israeli authorities put at around 240.

“There will be no general ceasefire in Gaza without the release of our hostages (…) I think it would hinder the war effort. It will hinder our effort to get our hostages out because the only thing that works with these Hamas criminals is the military pressure that we are exercising,” Netanyahu said.

Thus, he has defended that “there will only be a ceasefire” in order to achieve the release and evacuation of all the hostages captured by the Palestinian militia.

However, he has specified that his Government will carry out “small tactical pauses” of “one hour” to allow access for humanitarian aid.

One month after the outbreak of the conflict, more than 10,000 Palestinians have died, including almost 5,000 children, due to attacks by the Israeli Army. In the West Bank there are already more than 150 deaths. For its part, Israel estimates that more than 1,400 Israelis died on October 7 during the Hamas attack, which also captured another 240 people.