On December 30, local time, Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip has entered its 13th week, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a press conference in Tel Aviv.
At the meeting, Netanyahu reaffirmed his commitment to eliminate the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and bring home all Israelis captured in Gaza, CCTV News reported. He said that the Israeli army's military operation in the Gaza Strip will continue for several months, and it is necessary to control the "Philadelphia corridor" along the border with Egypt in the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu said at a press conference on the same day that the fighting in the Gaza Strip is raging, and Israel has achieved results on many fronts, but it has also paid a heavy price. Israel's policy is clear, which is to continue fighting until Hamas is eliminated and all the Israelis who have been detained are released.
Netanyahu also said that Israel must control the "Philadelphia corridor" along the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt to ensure that the Gaza Strip remains demilitarized after the war.
The "Philadelphia Corridor" is a 14-kilometre strip of land along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. Under the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, the narrow strip was established as a buffer zone controlled and patrolled by the Israeli army. This buffer zone was controlled by Hamas in 2007 when it gained control of the Gaza Strip.
Israel is trying to regain control of the "Philadelphia Corridor" to prevent smuggling into the Gaza Strip and senior Hamas leaders from entering Egypt through the "Philadelphia Corridor," according to Israel**. To that end, Israel plans to build an underground wall in the "Philadelphia corridor".
In response to the Israeli-Lebanese conflict, Netanyahu said that the Israeli army is carrying out heavy strikes against Allah in Lebanon and has approved plans to continue military operations. "If Allah grows, the confrontation will be expanded, and we will launch attacks that neither Allah nor Iran can imagine," he said.
On December 30, Netanyahu held a press conference. Source: The Times of Israel.
The governor of Chang'an Street (WeChat ID: capitalnews) noted that for some time, voices calling for Netanyahu's resignation have been coming and going.
Israel's main opposition leader, Yair Lapid, demanded Netanyahu's resignation, saying: "It is not good to change the prime minister in wartime, but it will be even worse if the current prime minister stays in office." Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin Indik also demanded Netanyahu's immediate resignation on social media so as not to bring greater danger to Israel.
According to the Times of Israel, a news survey released earlier this month showed that 70 percent of Israelis believe Netanyahu should resign as prime minister.
In the face of calls for his resignation, Netanyahu responded on the 30th that he had no plans to resign and would continue to govern after the conflict ended. When asked about his plans after the conflict ended, Netanyahu responded: "The only thing I want to resign from is the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). ”
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), on December 30, local time, Israel carried out heavy bombardment from the air, land and sea, and continued to hit most of the Gaza Strip, especially the refugee camps in central Gaza. The rate of disease spread in Gaza has intensified.
As Israel continues to block telecommunications in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations is seeking Israeli authorization to import telecommunications equipment in order to create an independent communications system for humanitarian relief workers.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip announced on the 30th that the Israeli army's attacks on the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours killed a total of 165 people. Since the outbreak of a new round of Palestinian-Israeli clashes on October 7, Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip have caused at least 2160,000 Palestinians died, 5More than 60,000 people were injured.
*: Governor of Chang'an Street WeChat***Reporter Liu Xiaoyan.