Israeli army to remain in Gaza ‘as long as necessary’ to prevent the use of the enclave for terrorist attacks against Israel made clear in a new speech on Saturday the Benjamin Netanyahu, despite opposition from the Biden administration.

In any case, he clarified, “no international pressure, no false claims about the soldiers of the IDF and about our state,” will affect Israel’s insistence on protecting itself.” Israel will “take a firm stand against the world if necessary,” he said.

When he thinks about “the next day,” he said, that’s “only after the destruction of Hamas. Hamas will demilitarize. There will be no further threat from the Gaza Strip to Israel and to ensure that, for as long as necessary, the IDF will control the security of Gaza to prevent terror from there.”

“The October 7 attacks showed that where Israel does not maintain security control, terror returns and settles and hits us.” This has “proved to be the case in Judea and Samaria as well. And so I will not give up the security check under any circumstances.”

“If we want peace, we must destroy Hamas. If we want security, we must destroy Hamas. If we want to secure the future of the state of Israel, we must destroy Hamas. This is what Israel must do. and this shall Israel do,’

In fact, the Israeli prime minister stated that Israel will oppose the return of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza after the war there against Hamas.

“There will not be a political authority that will educate its children to hate Israel, to kill Israelis, to eliminate the state of Israel. There cannot be an authority that pays the families of murderers [ποσά] based on the number they killed. There cannot be an authority whose leader has not yet condemned the terrible massacre [της 7ης Οκτωβρίου] 30 days later,” Netanyahu said, referring to PA President Mahmoud Abbas.

“There has to be something else there. But in each case we must have the security check”.

Referring to widespread reports of possible hostage deals, he noted that “when we have something concrete to say, we will tell the families and bring it to the government. Until then, silence is golden.”

He stressed that the return of the hostages is a “central objective of the war”. “There will be no ceasefire without the return of our hostages,” Mr. Netanyahu clarified.

He also called for global support for his opposition in a ceasefire without the return of hostages, urging the Americans to join in demanding the destruction of Hamas, which he said was a danger to themselves. “Most Americans understand that,” he observed.

He said he was working to ensure international support for the Israeli military, adding that in the wake of Hamas atrocities, “everyone in the free world has a moral obligation to support Israel.”

He also urged the Arab heads of state meeting on Saturday in Riyadh to “take a stand against Hamas”. The terrorist group has simply “brought destruction to Gaza. only bloodshed and poverty. Moreover, it is an integral part of Iran’s axis of terror and evil, and this axis endangers the entire world and the entire Arab world.”

He said that, in some countries, minorities put pressure on leaders: “Don’t give in to pressure. Our war is your war.” Israel must win for its own sake and for the sake of the world.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu honored soldiers killed fighting Hamas members in the ground invasion of Gaza.

“We are doing everything to be worthy of their sacrifice and heroism,” Netanyahu said. “We will not stop until the mission is completed,” he explained.

“There is no alternative but to win… We will defeat Hamas and bring back our prisoners,” he pledged.

As he said, the Israeli Army is inside Gaza City, “on the outskirts” of Shifa Hospital. Among the many terrorists killed, he said, are many of those who led the October 7 massacres in southern Israel. From Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar to the (organization’s) base, all these terrorists are destined to die, he warned.

Turning to the northern border, he warned the Iranian-backed Shiite organization Hezbollah not to intervene in the war between Israel and Hamas, as Israeli Defense Minister Gallant had done. “It will be the mistake of your life, and it would determine the fate of Lebanon,” he said.