TEL AVIV: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that no one would stop Israel from achieving victory in its war against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.
“No one will stop us — not The Hague, not the Axis of Evil and no one else. It is possible and necessary to continue until victory and we will do it,” Netanyahu told a televised press conference as the war in Gaza moves into its 100th day on Sunday.
He was referring to a case brought before the UN’s top court, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, alleging Israel’s offensive is in breach of the UN Genocide Convention, and an alliance of Iran-backed armed groups around the Middle East dubbed the Axis of Resistance.
He said the military assault in Gaza had already “eliminated most of the Hamas battalions” in the besieged Palestinian territory.
But he said that those displaced from northern Gaza would not be able to return to their homes any time soon.
“There is an international law and it says a simple thing — you remove a population and you don’t allow it to return as long as the danger exists,” Netanyahu said.
“And the danger exists. There is fighting there (in northern Gaza).”
Israel’s Netanyahu says ‘no one will stop us’ in Gaza
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Israel’s Netanyahu says ‘no one will stop us’ in Gaza
- “No one will stop us — not The Hague, not the Axis of Evil and no one else,” Netanyahu told a televised press conference
- He said the military assault in Gaza had already “eliminated most of the Hamas battalions”
Syria says 120 Daesh detainees escaped prison; Kurdish website said 1,500 escaped
- The Syrian ministry said Syrian army units and ministry special forces entered Shaddadi following the breakout
CAIRO: Syria’s Interior Ministry said on Tuesday that about 120 Daesh detainees escaped from Shaddadi prison, after the Kurdish website Rudaw reported that a spokesperson for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, Farhad Shami, said around 1,500 Daesh members had escaped.
The Syrian ministry said Syrian army units and ministry special forces entered Shaddadi following the breakout. It said security forces had recaptured 81 of the escapees after search and sweep operations in the town and surrounding areas, with efforts continuing to arrest the remaining fugitives.
Earlier, the Syrian army said “a number of” Daesh militants had escaped a prison that had been under SDF control in the eastern city of Shaddadi, accusing the SDF of releasing them.
After days of fighting with government forces, the SDF agreed on Sunday to withdraw from both Raqqa and Deir Ezzor, two Arab-majority provinces they had controlled for years and the location of Syria’s main oil fields.
