JERUSALEM: On Sunday, November 5, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected growing names for a cease-fire in Gaza until all of the more than 240 captives taken by Hamas during its attacks on October 7 were returned.
Without the transfer of the victims, there won’t be a ceasefire. Netanyahu reiterated the president’s long-standing location to the crews at the Ramon air force base in southwestern Israel, saying that this should be completely removed from the dictionary.
” We say this to both our allies and adversaries. We’ll just keep going until we defeat them. We have no other choice.
On Saturday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was urged to convince Israel to agree to a peace by international ministers from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates.
Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of Palestine, earlier met Blinken during the US secretary’s unexpected visit to the Israeli-occupied West Bank and demanded an instant peace.
As part of US efforts to stop the Israel-Has battle from spreading, Blinken has visited the area for the second time in less than a quarter.
Blinken has been attempting to persuade Israel to agree to place certain pauses that would help much-needed aid to be distributed within Gaza, despite the fact that a ceasefire would only let Hamas to reorganize.
The recent conflict, which started on October 7 when Hamas launched a surprise attack on southern Israel, killing 1, 400 individuals and taking more than 240 hostages, has resulted in the deaths of over 9,770 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials.