LIVE – Israel-Hamas: Netanyahu says IDF is progressing “exceptionally well” in Gaza

Oday, a VTC driver who was the child of Palestinian refugees, was in Gaza on October 7 when Hamas attacked Israel, provoking the Jewish state’s immediate response.

“At first I hear the sounds of planes, fighter planes that don’t stop circling, when I hear the explosion, I have the impression that it’s in the next room” , he told BFMTV.

As the days pass, the young man fears for his life and tries to go towards the South and the Rafah border post to leave the country. He filmed, in several videos, his daily life in the Gaza Strip. He was finally able to leave the enclave last week with other French people.

During this same speech given to the American media, Fox NewsBenjamin Netanyahu assured that Israel did not intend to stay in Gaza in the long term.

“We are not seeking to rule Gaza. We are not seeking to occupy it, but we are seeking to give it and us a better future,” he said, adding that Israel was not seeking to “move anyone”.

Asked about his plan for the future of the Palestinian territory, he said it must be “demilitarized, deradicalized and reconstructed.” “We will have to find a government, a civilian government that will be there,” he added, without specifying who could form such a government.

During an interview with the American media Fow News, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured that the army of the Jewish state was progressing “exceptionally well” in its offensive against Hamas.

“I think the Israeli army is operating exceptionally well,” he said, again rejecting the idea of ​​a ceasefire.

“There is one thing we have not accepted, and that is a ceasefire. A ceasefire with Hamas means a surrender” and “there will not be one without liberation hostages,” he insisted, when asked about his meetings with American President Joe Biden.

Israel struck Syria at dawn on Friday in response to a drone that fell on a school in Eilat (south) on Thursday, the Israeli army said.

“In response to a drone from Syria that hit a school in Eilat, the Israel Defense Forces struck the organization that carried out the attack,” the army said in a statement and on X (ex Twitter) , without specifying the name of this organization.

Israel “holds the Syrian regime responsible for any terrorist act that emanates from its territory,” she added.

Hello, welcome to this live dedicated to the war between Israel and Hamas. While calls for a ceasefire are increasing, including, and for the first time, from Emmanuel Macron, the fighting on the ground continues.

After more than a month of Israeli strikes, in retaliation for the Hamas attack against Israel on October 7, several hundred thousand civilians, according to the UN, remain trapped in a disastrous humanitarian situation in the north of the Strip. Gaza.

In the Gaza Strip, Israeli bombings left 10,812 dead, mainly civilians, including 4,412 children, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.