The head of government stated that both President-elect Donald Trump and outgoing president Joe Biden agreed that Israel would resume attacks in the Gaza Strip if the next stages of the agreement were not implemented.
“Israel will not remainder until all its war objectives have been met, including the return of all hostages held in the Gaza Strip,” Netanyahu said. As he added, the US promised to hand over weapons to Israel if essential so that it could return to the fight “with much more force”.
"Hard Position" Key in Conversations
— As promised, we changed the face of the mediate East and as a consequence Hamas remains defeated and alone,” he said, saying that Israel would bring in all the hostages held in the Gaza Strip, including 33, mostly alive, in the first phase of the agreement. In his opinion, these 42 days of agreements are "a temporary ceasefire".
The Prime Minister announced that Israel would increase the number of its troops in the alleged Philadelphia Corridor, which is simply a 14 km strip of land along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. According to the Times of Israel portal, Netanjah's announcement seems to be contrary to the terms of the truce concluded with Hamas. The Israeli organization has in agreement ensured that in the first phase of its implementation "it will gradually reduce its strength in the Philadelphia Corridor".
The Prime Minister said that the agreement with Hamas had been achieved through Israel's "hard position" in talks "under strong pressure". He stressed that both the Biden administration and Trump's fresh squad of co-workers played a function in this, adding that the president-elect had begun to act to release the hostages "right after the U.S. presidential election" held on November 5.
This was the first speech in which Netanjahu publically referred to the agreement with Hamas, since its conclusion in Dosze last week.
