The Prime Minister of the Israeli occupation government, Benjamin Netanyahu, confirmed on Saturday night in a joint conference, with Defense Minister Yoav Galant and Minister of the “War Cabinet” Benny Gantz, that the Palestinian Authority will not return to the Gaza Strip at the end of the war, while the Israeli Minister of Defense, Yoav Galant, threatened Lebanese Hezbollah to attack Beirut.

During a press conference for the Israeli War Council, Netanyahu said: “We will not stop until we complete the mission. The war against Hamas is progressing with full force and its only goal is victory and nothing but victory. We will eliminate Hamas and return the kidnappers.”

Netanyahu claimed that the occupation army had completed the encirclement of Gaza City and killed thousands of resistance fighters, including those who participated in the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation on October 7, which was carried out by the Palestinian resistance in response to the occupation’s crimes and violations.

He also claimed that "Hamas has lost control over the northern Gaza Strip and there is no place for Yahya Al-Sinwar (Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip) and even the last gunman to hide. They will all die. Our forces are striking them from above the ground and from under the ground, and we will continue with all force until victory," as he put it. .

Regarding the war on the Lebanese front, Netanyahu said: “We are also ready on the northern front, and I warned Hezbollah not to make a mistake and enter the war, because this will be the mistake of their lives and they will decide the fate of Lebanon.”

Regarding the prisoners, Netanyahu spoke of “daily sessions” to discuss this file in the cabinet, before saying that “there will be no ceasefire without the return of our kidnappers. When we have something to say, we will inform the families and bring it to the government table, and until then it is better to remain silent.” .

Netanyahu also addressed the Americans, saying: “You also enlisted for our primary goal, which is to eliminate the Hamas movement, and this is your goal as well, and most of the American public supports us (..) From time to time there are disagreements. I tell them, our war is your war as well, and in this war we must win by “For our sake, but also for your sake.”

While he said that “there is no global pressure that will undermine our work in defending ourselves,” he announced that “Gaza will be a demilitarized Gaza,” and that “the Israeli army will continue to have security control over the Gaza Strip,” claiming that “the events of October 7 (the Al-Aqsa flood) “It has proven conclusively that we must not compromise security control under any circumstances,” he said.

Regarding what he means by security control, Netanyahu said that this means “that we enter whenever we want in order to kill those who pose a threat to Israeli security.”

He added: "What we can pledge is that there will not be Hamas that can enter and kill the Israelis, nor will there be a (Palestinian) authority, and there cannot be an authority headed by a president who has not, to this day, denounced what happened on October 7."

Source: Al-Araby Al-Jadeed