Jerusalem:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday rejected the concept a world power could possibly be answerable for safety within the Gaza Strip after the warfare, saying that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) ought to retain management for disarmament of Gaza, CNN reported on Wednesday.
In response to CNN, this isn’t the primary time Netanyahu has referred to as for post-war Israeli army management in Gaza.
“On the day after, Gaza must be disarmed. And in order for Gaza to be disarmed, there’s only one force that can ensure that — and this force is the IDF,” Netanyahu mentioned on Tuesday throughout a information convention.
“No international force can be responsible for that,” he mentioned, including, “We saw what happened to other places where international forces were brought for disarmament purposes.”
In November, Netanyahu advised CNN that Israel’s safety function in a post-war Gaza could be an “over-riding, over-reaching military envelope,” however didn’t clarify what that meant.
In the meantime, the Israeli army encircled town of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the Israel Protection Forces’ chief of the final workers mentioned, CNN reported.
“Sixty days after the war began, our forces are now encircling the Khan Yunis area in the southern Gaza Strip,” IDF chief Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi mentioned on Tuesday, including, “Simultaneously, we continue to secure our accomplishments in the northern Gaza Strip.”
Earlier, the IDF mentioned its forces had been working “in the heart” of Khan Younis, the territory’s second-largest metropolis.
CNN reported that within the north, Israeli troops additionally “completed the encirclement” of the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza, Israel’s army mentioned Tuesday, because it seeks to finish its offensive operations in opposition to Hamas militants within the north of the enclave.
Halevi mentioned the IDF was now getting into the “third phase of the ground operations,” although he didn’t specify what that meant.
“We have secured many Hamas strongholds in the northern Gaza Strip, and now we are operating against its strongholds in the south,” he mentioned.
In response to a journalist’s query concerning the humanitarian scenario in Gaza, Halevi pointed to the help trickling into Gaza, saying, “We’re making great efforts, in accordance to the government’s decision and the international law,” CNN reported.
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