Israel vows to eliminate Palestinian group, saying, “Every Hamas member is a dead man”
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In a late-night speech on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaimed that every member of Hamas is a dead man.
Netanyahu addressed at a news conference held by the recently established emergency government established to carry out the battle against Hamas, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Yoav Gallant, the Likud Party’s defense minister, and Benny Gantz, the leader of the National Unity Party, are the other members of the emergency cabinet.
The Israeli emergency government has sworn to eradicate Hamas as the conflict enters its sixth day.
“We are engaged in a fierce battle across all fronts. We have switched to becoming aggressive. Every member of Hamas is a dead man, according to Netanyahu.
The Israeli Prime Minister compared Hamas to the Islamic State, or ISIS, stating that the Palestinian insurgents had infiltrated Southern Israel on Saturday and had set people on fire, raped victims, and shot babies in the head.
The incident, which has been called the deadliest in decades, sparked Israeli forces’ retaliatory airstrikes on Palestinian settlements in Gaza.
Following the attack, the Israeli government declared war and the Israel Defense Forces, or IDF, launched Operation Swords of Iron.
“We saw bound children shot in the head, people burned while they were still alive and young people who were raped.
“Hamas is ISIS and we will destroy it like the world destroyed ISIS,” Netanyahu added.
Defense Minister Gallant vowed that Hamas will be “obliterated”.
“Hamas — the Islamic State of Gaza — will be wiped from the face of the earth. It will not continue to exist.
“There will be no situation in which Israeli children are murdered and we all go about our business,” Gallant said.
He described the Hamas onslaught on Southern Israel as “the worst terror attack the world has ever seen”.
“Thousands of terrorists stormed in to destroy, murder, loot and slaughter,” he said, noting that, even as a soldier who has witnessed many tough situations “I never saw anything like this”.
Meanwhile, Al Jazeera, in an update on the war on Thursday morning, reported that the Palestinian health ministry said the death toll in Gaza had risen to 1,200.
About 5,600 persons have sustained injuries.
The number of people killed in Israel had also risen to 1,200.
Al Jazeera also quoted the United Nations, UN, as saying that 338,934 Palestinians have been displaced in Gaza as Israel’s devastating bombing raids continue overnight.
A former Human Rights Watch chief, Kenneth Roth, said Israel’s “indiscriminate and disproportionate attack” on Palestinian civilians could constitute “a war crime”.