Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likened Hamas to ISIS in a fiery speech yesterday, in which he vowed that the Jewish state’s retaliation against the terrorist organization for killing and kidnapping civilians “will reverberate with them for generations.”
“We have just started attacking Hamas,” the 73-year-old world leader said in a televised statement, as rockets continued to rain down on the Gaza Strip.
He claimed that Israel is fighting “for our home, a war to ensure our existence – a war that we will win.”
“What we will do to our enemies in the coming days will resonate with them for generations,” Netanyahu continued, before going on to talk about the horrors Israelis have had to face over the past four days.
“The atrocities committed by Hamas have not been seen since the atrocities of ISIS – children tied up and killed with their entire families, girls and boys shot in the back, killed, and other atrocities that I will not describe here,” he said.
“Hamas terrorists bind, burn, and kill children. They are violent,” Netanyahu said. “Hamas is ISIS.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared Hamas to ISIS in a televised speech Monday night. @IsraeliPM / X
“We always knew who Hamas was,” he continued, speaking of the Israeli people. “Now, the whole world knows who Hamas is, and we will defeat them just as the enlightened world defeated ISIS.”
Netanyahu concluded by saying: “This vile enemy wants war, and it will get war.”
Israel’s prime minister also reportedly told US President Biden that the country had no choice but to launch an all-out ground operation in Gaza.
“We have to go in. We can’t negotiate now,” Netanyahu told Biden, according to three unnamed sources familiar with the conversation who spoke about it to Axios.
He said Israel had to respond to the atrocities committed by Hamas with force because a country cannot show weakness in the Middle East.
Netanyahu reportedly told US President Biden that Israel had no choice but to launch an all-out ground operation in Gaza.REUTERS Netanyahu’s speech was made as rockets continued to rain down on Gaza.REUTERS
“We need to restore deterrence,” Netanyahu reportedly told the US president, who decided not to try to convince him to carry out ground operations, the source said.
As of Tuesday, the four-day war had claimed at least 1,600 lives, as Israel saw gun battles in Gaza’s streets and neighborhoods reduced to rubble.
Hamas has also kidnapped up to 150 civilians, including women and children, who were forcibly taken from their homes.
As of Tuesday, the four-day war has claimed at least 1,600 lives.REUTERS
It warned on Monday that it would begin implementing the ransom.
“Any targeting of our people without warning will be met with the death penalty for civilian hostages,” the terrorist organization’s Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigade said in a statement.
Just a few hours later, Abu Obaida — the spokesman for the brigade — told Al Jazeera: “We have decided to put an end to this, and as of now, we declare that any targeting of our people in their homes without prior warning will unfortunately face the death penalty against civilians which we hold.”
The exact number of hostages held by Hamas is unknown, but on Tuesday the Israel Defense Forces announced it had notified 50 families whose loved ones were being held in the Gaza Strip.
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