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Benjamin Netanyahu said this Sunday that the “intense” fighting against Hamas in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip where the Israeli army is leading a ground offensive, was about to end.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the “intense” fighting against Palestinian Hamas in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip where the Israeli army is leading a ground offensive, is “about to end”. “The intense phase of the fighting against Hamas is about to end. It is about to end. This does not mean that the war is about to end but the war in its intense phase is about to end. end in Rafah,” Mr. Netanyahu said in an interview with Israeli channel 14.
“After the end of the intense phase, we will be able to redeploy some forces towards the north, and we will do so, mainly for defensive purposes, but also to bring the (displaced) inhabitants back to their homes,” added the Prime Minister , who gave his first interview to an Israeli television channel since the start of the war against Hamas on October 7. Mr. Netanyahu also indicated that he would not accept any “partial” agreement. “The objective is to recover the hostages and uproot the Hamas regime in Gaza,” he added.