The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahusaid Saturday that Israel is about to “get a great achievement” and hoped that in the “next few days” the release of all hostages in the hands of Hamas can be announced.
“I hope, if God wants, that in the next few days, during the festival of Sucot (Jewish party that is celebrated between October 7 and 14), you can announce them The return of all our kidnapped, both living and dead“He said in a video broadcast by his cabinet on Saturday night.
This is his first appearance since Hamás said this Friday night that he is willing to free Israeli hostages according to the Plan of the US President, Donald Trumpfor an end of the Israeli offensive in Gaza, but with the condition of negotiating some parts of it.
According to Netyahu, Hamas “is isolated” And he was forced to accept Trump’s plan for “the enormous military and political pressure” that Israel applied.
The prime minister celebrated that the American plan, which has yet to be negotiated by Hamas before being accepted, involves the release of all hostages in a first stage, after which Israeli troops would continue to “control all the territories that control within the Gaza Strip”, about 80% of it.
Netanyahu defended his two years of offensive in Gaza stating that, if the troops had retired before the strip, they would not have taken control of the southern town of border with Egypt, Rafah, nor from the Philadelphia corridor that starts the strip into two, which has prevented, as he said, that weapons were introduced in the territory.
And he confirmed that he has ordered that a negotiating team, headed by Minister Ron Dermer, trip to Egypt to “finalize the technical details” with the mediators and Hamas of the US plan accepted by Israel.
His intention, he said, is that the negotiations are limited to a certain period of time and said that “Hamas will be disarmed” and will disappear.
“This will happen by diplomatic route, according to Trump’s plan, or by military, according to our initiative,” he added.