Benjamin Netanyahu
The terror organization’s leaders “are living on borrowed time,” said Israeli Defense MInister Yoav Gallant.
The U.S. president also spoke with Egypt’s head of state about the impending release of Israelis from Gaza.
Shortly after Netanyahu’s speech, Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi announced that no hostages would be released before Friday.
“We are at war, and we will continue the war. We will continue until we achieve all our goals,” said Netanyahu • Hamas says truce will enter into force at 10 a.m. on Nov. 23.
The Cabinet meets to approve an agreement with Hamas.
The U.S.-brokered agreement would see an initial 50 or more women and children freed in smaller batches every 24 hours in exchange for a five-day pause in fighting.
“The political disagreement will not go away” between Washington and Jerusalem, Shoshana Bryen, senior director of the Jewish Policy Center, told JNS.
“We can’t leave a vacuum” that could enable the coastal enclave to turn “into a terror base again,” said the Israeli president.
“It’s not going to be one of the things he will be proud of when he talks to his kids about his political career,” Hanoch Milwidsky told JNS in Washington the day after the “March for Israel” rally.
The staff instructors and new recruits waged a heroic battle against terrorists who came to murder them, the prime minister said.
Protests are planned in Israel’s capital to demand the return of the hostages in Gaza.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused the IDF of “killing women, children and babies” in the Gaza Strip.
