FLASH
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No one will stop us, not The Hague, not the Iran-led axis of evil, and no one else.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue Israel's war in Gaza until a victory against Hamas is achieved, with pressure continuing and mounting on the government both at home and abroad.
Speaking at a press conference on Saturday evening, the Israeli prime minister defiantly sidestepped calls for a ceasefire and rejected South Africa's accusations that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, brought to the Hague-based International Court of Justice.
" No one will stop us, not The Hague, not the axis of evil led by Iran and no one else. The hypocritical attack in The Hague against the Jewish state that arose from the ashes of the Holocaust. . . it is a moral low point in the history of nations ," he said.
Despite the bellicose stance taken by the Israeli prime minister in office, international and domestic pressure is mounting on his government to halt the war in Gaza, at least temporarily, and ensure the safe return of the remaining Israeli hostages.
Josep Borrell, the EU's foreign policy chief who is currently visiting Egypt, called yesterday for the fighting to stop in order to better address the "massive" humanitarian needs inside the devastated Palestinian enclave and organize the release of Israeli hostages.
Borrell also hinted that if conditions worsen inside Gaza, which international aid groups have called a humanitarian "catastrophe," most of the enclave's more than 2 million residents will have no choice but to try to escape the trap by fleeing to Egypt.
More than 23,000 Palestinians have been killed so far in Gaza, according to health officials in the Hamas-controlled territory, with about 85 percent of residents displaced from their homes and UN officials warning that famine is imminent. explosion throughout Gaza.
" The mass death, destruction, displacement, hunger, loss and grief of the last 100 days are tarnishing our common humanity. The crisis in Gaza is a man-made catastrophe, consisting of dehumanizing language and the use of food, water and fuel as instruments of war ," said Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of UNRWA, the UN's main aid agency, on Saturday night. in Gaza.
According to Israeli officials, at least 1,200 Israelis were killed during the initial Hamas attack on October 7 that sparked the war and 240 were taken hostage.
Relatives of the Israeli hostages staged a mass rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday night, drawing tens of thousands of people, to mark "100 days of hell" since the Hamas attack and called on Netanyahu to do whatever it takes to ensure release of captives.
The demonstration continued through the night for a full 24 hours, including a 100-minute "solidarity strike" on Sunday morning by the national Histadrut labor union, academic institutions and various private sector companies.
Demands from the hostages' relatives for a complete halt to the fighting in order to facilitate a comprehensive release deal with Hamas have grown louder in recent weeks. Much of the media and even opposition politicians have come out in support, arguing that the safe return of the more than 130 Israelis still in captivity should take precedence over the government's mission to "destroy" Hamas.
Meanwhile, the Netanyahu government and the Israeli security establishment continue to insist, as they have done since the beginning of the war, that only the application of ever greater military pressure on Hamas will enable the release of the remaining hostages./ Adapted "Pamphlet" from "Financial Times"
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