Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that he will not stop the war against Hamas until he achieves all his goals, including the release of 240 hostages held by the militant group in Gaza. He has also ordered the Mossad spy agency to target Hamas terrorists wherever they are, even outside Gaza.
Netanyahu made these statements at a news conference on Thursday after he spoke to US President Joe Biden on the phone. He said he told Biden that he would press ahead with Israel’s war against Hamas after the temporary ceasefire that was agreed by both sides. “I want to be clear. The war is continuing. The war is continuing. We will continue it until we achieve all our goals,” Netanyahu said.
One of Netanyahu’s goals is to destroy Hamas’s command and control structure, which he claims is located underneath the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. He said he has instructed the Mossad to act against the heads of Hamas, wherever they are. Most of Hamas’s top leadership lives in exile, primarily in the Gulf state of Qatar and the Lebanese capital of Beirut. The Mossad has a history of assassinating Palestinian terrorists and Iranian nuclear scientists overseas.
Another goal of Netanyahu is to secure the release of 240 hostages, including two Israeli civilians, who were abducted by Hamas on October 7 and are believed to be kept in the tunnels underneath the Al-Shifa Hospital. The hostages are part of a temporary truce agreement between Israel and Hamas, which was supposed to start on Thursday, but has been postponed.
According to Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi, the negotiations for the release of the hostages are progressing and continuing all the time. However, he said that the start of the release would not happen before Friday, as per the original agreement between the parties.
Under the agreement, Hamas will release 50 hostages from Gaza, and Israel will free 150 Palestinian detainees in the first phase of the truce.
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