By EFE
07 Oct 2023, 11:53 PM EDT
The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, affirmed this Saturday that his country’s Army will use “all its power” to destroy Hamas and asked the Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip, warning that they will reduce the hideouts of Hamas “to rubble.” the militiamen.
“The Israel Defense Forces are about to use all their power to destroy the capabilities of Hamas,” Netanyahu said in a televised speech, the second since the Islamist Hamas movement surprised Israel in the morning with a ground attack. unprecedented air and sea.
“We will destroy them and forcefully avenge this dark day that they have imposed on the State of Israel and its citizens,” he stressed.
The Israeli Prime Minister also called on the inhabitants of Gaza to evacuate the strip in the face of the imminent offensive.
“I say to the residents of Gaza: leave now because we will act strongly. All the places where Hamas is deployed, hiding and operating, we will turn them into islands of rubble,” he warned.
However, Gazans have no possibility of leaving the enclave, de facto governed by Hamas because it is blocked by Egypt and Israel. Thus, those who manage to obtain permits to leave the strip are few.
On the other hand, Netanyahu thanked the leaders of the United States, his main partner, France and the United Kingdom for expressing their support for Israel.
Israel’s prime minister promised to win the war, although he warned that “the price will be high.”
Hamas is a movement considered terrorist by the Israeli Government, the United States and the European Union.
Emergency extended in Israel
Meanwhile, the Israeli Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, has decided to extend the emergency situation to the entire country and not only in an 80-kilometer radius of the Gaza Strip, as he had previously done.
For its part, the National Security Council warned Israelis living abroad to be alert for attacks against Jews related to the current escalation.
Some 250 people have died in Israel as a result of multiple aggression by Hamas; while retaliatory Israeli airstrikes have claimed the lives of 232 people in Gaza, according to the latest data confirmed by medical sources on both sides.
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