Jerusalem, 30 Dec (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on 30 December that it will take more time for the Israeli army to achieve victory in the Gaza Strip, and the military operation will continue for several months.
Netanyahu said at a press conference in Tel Aviv 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 the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) is eliminated and all detained Israelis are released.
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.
In addition, 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".
The Palestinian health department in the Gaza Strip announced on the 30th that the Israeli army's attacks on the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours had killed a total of 165 people. Since the outbreak of a new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict on October 7, Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip have caused about 210,000 deaths, 5More than 60,000 people were injured. (ENDS).