Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu promised on Monday April 10 to “restore security” in his country by acting ” On all fronts “after a new outbreak of violence in the Middle East. “We will not allow the terrorist Hamas to establish itself in Lebanon”Netanyahu added, after the Israeli army accused the Palestinian Islamist movement of being behind the launch of dozens of rockets into northern Israel on Thursday.
The rocket fire, which injured one person and caused material damage, came the day after the brutal irruption of the Israeli police, in the middle of Ramadan, in the third holiest site of Islam, the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem -East, area annexed by Israel. The government claimed that the security forces were “forced to act to restore order” in the face of “extremists” barricaded in the mosque with rocks and firework flares which were used against the police during their assault.
This violence on the esplanade of the Mosques of Jerusalem occurred in a climate of inexorable rise in violence between Israelis and Palestinians since the beginning of the year, after the inauguration of Mr. Netanyahu at the end of December at the head of one of the most right-wing governments in Israel’s history. Since the beginning of the year, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has claimed the lives of at least 94 Palestinians, 19 Israelis, a Ukrainian and an Italian, according to a count by Agence France-Presse (AFP) based on sources Israeli and Palestinian officials.
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“I promise you, we will reach out to all the vile terrorists who have killed our citizens and they will be held to account without exception”said Mr. Netanyahu after the death of two young Israeli women and their mother in a Palestinian attack in the occupied West Bank. “We are still in the middle of the fight, we are ready for other strong actions on all fronts if necessary”added the Prime Minister.
Mr. Netanyahu also addressed a message of firmness to Syria, where Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes since the beginning of the civil war in this country in 2011, officially not to allow the Islamic Republic of Iran, an animal peeve of Mr. Netanyahu, to establish a bridgehead there. Israel again carried out strikes there overnight from Saturday to Sunday, in response to rocket fire towards the part of the Golan annexed by Israel after its conquest of Syria in 1967.
“In Syria, we acted against Iranian targets and Syrian regime targets. The system of government [du président syrien Bachar al-] Assad already knows that the price we have taken is only the beginning: if he continues to allow the firing of rockets into Israel, the Assad regime will pay a very heavy price”Netanyahu said.
Very low in several polls which give the winning opposition in the event of an election today, Mr. Netanyahu also said he had reversed his decision announced in March, but never implemented, to dismiss his Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant , which had urged the government to pause in its justice reform project. This project sparked one of the biggest protest movements in Israel’s history. “There were differences between us, even difficult clashes on certain subjects, but I decided to [les] leave behind, Gallant remains in his post and we will continue to work together for the safety of the citizens of Israel.”assured Mr. Netanyahu.