The Israeli chief’s feedback got here after Qatar confirmed talks are on for a attainable new truce.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made feedback, suggesting that new negotiations had been underneath option to get well hostages held by Hamas.
In a televised press convention on Saturday, Netanyahu known as the battle an “existential battle” that should be fought till victory, regardless of strain and prices, and stated Gaza could be demilitarised and underneath Israeli safety management.
His statements got here a day after Israeli forces mistakenly killed three of greater than 100 captives.
Netanyahu stated Israel’s offensive in Gaza had helped clinch a partial hostage-release deal in November and promised to keep up intense navy strain on Hamas.
“The instruction I’m giving the negotiating workforce relies on this strain, with out which we now have nothing,” he stated.
Netanyahu’s feedback got here after the chief of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence company, met the prime minister of Qatar, a rustic mediating between Israel and Hamas, and whose efforts resulted in a seven-day truce and alternate of hostages final month.
Earlier on Saturday, Qatar confirmed that talks had been underneath means for a attainable new truce.
Netanyahu sidestepped a query in regards to the assembly reportedly held in Europe, however confirmed he had given directions to the negotiating workforce.
“We have now severe criticisms of Qatar … however proper now we try to finish the restoration of our hostages,” he stated.
A Hamas assertion later stated the group “affirms its place to not open any negotiations to alternate prisoners except the aggression in opposition to our folks stops as soon as and for all”.
“The motion communicated this place to all mediators,” it added.
On Friday, Israeli forces admitted to mistakenly killing three Hamas-held hostages, all of their 20s, within the Shijaiyah space of Gaza Metropolis, the place the troops are engaged in fierce preventing with Hamas.
Israel continues to pound Gaza, killing almost 19,000 Palestinians since October 7. 1000’s extra are feared buried underneath rubble.
Israel says at the least 1,147 folks had been killed within the Hamas assault on its soil two months in the past.
The ten-week battle has flattened a lot of northern Gaza and displaced 85 % of the territory’s inhabitants of two.3 million from their properties.
