The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, assured this Monday that there are “gaps“between the Israeli proposal and the version announced by US President Joe Biden on Friday, and has reiterated that the truce would be temporary, but it wouldn’t mean the end of the war.

“The claim that we agreed to a ceasefire without our conditions being met is not true. (…) The proposal that Biden presented is incomplete,” Netanyahu said before the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee of the Knesset (Parliament Israeli).

“The war will stop to recover the hostages and then we will have talks. “There are details that the American president did not present to the public,” he added before the parliamentary committee, which he updated on the military operation in Rafah, control of the Philadelphia corridor (Gaza-Egypt border), and the negotiations.

His words contradict Biden’s announcementin which after a first phase of six weeks – during which Israeli troops would abandon the populated areas of the Strip and women, the elderly and wounded among the hostages would be released – a second phase would begin that would include “the permanent end of hostilities ” and the release of the rest of the hostages, including soldiers.

But according to Biden, This second phase will require intense dialoguesince the details are still unknown, something that has also been criticized by Hamas leaders, who consider the proposal ambiguous and without a solid commitment from the US that the war will not actually be restarted.

Denies pressure within the coalition

After his intervention in the parliamentary Defense and Foreign Committee, Netanyahu published a video message broadcast on his social networks in which he assures that the Government is working “in countless ways to return our kidnapped people. “I think about them all the time. Because of their families, because of their suffering. That’s why we went a long way to get them back, but in the process of this action we maintained the objectives of the war, the main one being the elimination of Hamas,” he says. in the video.

Netanyahu has assured that in the agreement agreement that they agreed with the US is not incompatible with that objective of destroying Hamas. “It is part of the scheme, it is not something that I am saying now because of the pressures within the coalition, it is something that we agreed unanimously in the war cabinet,” he indicated in reference to the threats from his far-right partners to leave the Executive. If that agreement is sealed, they consider it a surrender to Hamas.

While negotiations continue, At least 40 Palestinians died in the Strip in the last 24 hours, which now brings the total number to around 36,480 – most of them women and children – after another night of heavy Israeli bombing and artillery attacks in almost 8 months of conflict.