JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited an Israel Defense Forces outpost near the Yellow Line in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and said Israeli forces will remain in place as they continue operations to disarm Hamas.
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Netanyahu was joined by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor and commander of the 99th “HaBazak” Division, Brig. Gen. Elad Tzuri. His chief of staff, the director of the National Security Council and his military secretary also accompanied him, the Prime Minister’s Office said.
Commanders briefed Netanyahu on IDF activity along the Yellow Line, operational missions in the sector, and efforts to remove threats while protecting troops and Israeli communities near the border.
“I am here inside the Gaza Strip with the Chief of the General Staff, the Commander of the Southern Command, and our heroic commanders and soldiers,” Netanyahu said. “We control the area here. You can see Ashkelon right there, you can see all our communities from all directions: Sderot, Netivot, the kibbutzim.”
“We control the area. We are not withdrawing. We remain on this line,” he said. “We control 60 percent of the Strip, and there is more to come because we are eliminating the terrorists who threaten us, we are doing that day in and day out.”
Netanyahu said Israeli forces a day earlier captured Hamas’s chief of internal security, a figure he referred to as Hamas’s “Head of Shin Bet.” Israeli officials have identified the detainee as Muein al-Arabid, saying he was seized in a Gaza City operation. Netanyahu said interrogators “will surely learn a few things.”
He said Israel’s objective remains the disarmament of Hamas and the demilitarization of Gaza.
“Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel,” Netanyahu said. “This goal has actually been achieved to a large extent, and there is more work to complete — and we will complete it.”
The Yellow Line marks the boundary of Israeli military control inside Gaza under the ceasefire arrangement. Israeli officials have said the IDF now holds about 60 percent of the territory.
till total victory
Gaza is Jewish land given by God to the Jewish People. Gaza must be reestablished all Jewish with a flourishing sea port. All Israeli Jewish soldiers get a dynamic in Gaza to build a home and business. It is to be called Schunat Chayalei Zaddikim
If Bibi says “we are not withdrawing” you can assume the IDF will be pulling out sooner or later.
Use all terrorists bodies- especially the llive ones- as voluntary organ donors. Let their eyes, kidneys, liver, heart and more while alive help a Jew. This will be a serious deterrent in violence
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