Israel’s prime minister has declared that the truce with Hamas does not mean the end of the Israeli offensive in the enclave. This is what Benjamin Netanyahu expressed very shortly after learning of the agreement reached with the Palestinian organization, which includes the release of hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and access to more humanitarian aid to “all areas of Gaza without exception.”

“We will not stop the war after the ceasefire (…) It is nonsense to suggest that we will stop the war after the ceasefire to return the hostages. I would like to make it clear: we are at war and we will continue the war until we achieve all our objectives: eliminate Hamas, return all hostages and missing persons and guarantee that there will be no threat to Israel in Gaza,” Netanyahu said.

In this way, the top Israeli leader removes the possibilities of this truce representing a turning point in a conflict that reached dramatic figures from the first moment. In the early hours of this Wednesday, Hamas announced that, “after difficult and complex negotiations for many days”the parties have reached a humanitarian truce agreement, which requires the cessation of military actions by the Israeli Army, which will last four days and which has been achieved with the “tireless efforts of Qatar and Egypt.”

With this pact, The Palestinian militia will release 50 hostages and in exchange Israel will release 150 prisoners from its prisons who are in their prisons, all of them women and children under 19 years of age. During the truce, Israeli authorities, who have pledged not to arrest or attack anyone in the Gaza Strip, will stop flying over the southern part of the enclave completely and the northern area for six hours a day.

The agreement also includes the entry of a greater number of convoys con humanitarian aid, medical goods and fuel “to all areas of Gaza without exception,” as the militia explained in a statement. Subsequently, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, mediator with Egypt and the United States, has indicated that the “humanitarian pause” will be announced in the next 24 hours and has confirmed the conditions between the parties, and has reaffirmed its “commitment to the efforts ongoing diplomatic efforts to reduce tensions, stop bloodshed and protect civilians.