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© Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Netanyahu rejects growing calls for a cease-fire as Israel battles Hamas outside main Gaza hospital
By WAFAA SHURAFA and BASSEM MROUE DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
46 Comments
Ronin Tsukebin
Of course, Netanyahu does not want a cease fire as this is Israel's chance to to take over Gaza for a Final Palestinian Solution.
Yubaru
And why dont the other Arab and Muslim states, besides Iran, stand up and do something to help alleviate the suffering of the people? Why aren't other Arab states getting involved to try to stop Hamas and get the hostages back?
What Hamas did in Israel is unforgivable, and Israel's response is damned if you do, damned if you dont.
sakurasuki
Seems those settlers just will get more lands after this conflicts ends.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/6/who-are-israeli-settlers-and-why-do-they-live-on-palestinian-lands
Just like what happened in 1948
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/15/nakba-mapping-palestinian-villages-destroyed-by-israel-in-1948
Yubaru
You sound like a member of the propaganda ministry of the PLO.
"Final Palestinian Solution"..... You do realize that countless numbers of Israelis are Palestinian too. Israel is looking for a "Final HAMAS Solution" There is a huge difference, and the nuance matters!
Superlib
Hamas knew this would be Israel's response. They didn't care.
naitch
Israel massacres defenceless civilians...genocide in front the world....
Yrral
Superlib,it do not matter, would you like to live under the thumb of a occupation government,that control the lives of million of Palestinian
Ronin Tsukebin
1) It has been reliably reported that numerous journalists were prepositioned with advance knowledge to film the Hamas' attack on Oct. 7th on the Israeli border.
2) Many Gazan Palestinians totally despise Hamas and wish they were gone.
The above are incontrovertible facts. How could the vaunted Mossad and Israeli intelligence not have known this attack would happen. It is literally impossible. This is why Netanyahu does not want a ceasefire; he wants to finish the job.
Yrral
Palestinian should be allowed to hunt down militants Isrealis that terrorize Palestinian
Yrral
Ronin,where was the Mossad on Oct 7, napping,Hamas was practicing out in open for an attack, about these Journalist,that is no more than a Jewish Conspiracy,these people in the press did not have knowledge ahead of time
bass4funk
Palestinian solution no, Hamas final solution without a doubt.
Yrral
Bass4,what was the US final solution in Iraq and Afghanistan, withdraw,but I do not know why we still in Iraq
wallace
bass4funk
yesterday you posted
"I always supported the Palestinian people. I never said a bad thing about the Palestinian people, but I do have a fundamental problem with Hamas and I think Hamas needs to be eradicated."
You support the Arabs.
TaiwanIsNotChina
You have yet to explain how the ICC can investigate where it has no jurisdiction.
Yrral
Wallace, somebody said this about Japanese and the US was well on their way of doing,what if someone say this also should be your fate,they said the same thing about Jews
yipyip
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back Saturday against growing international calls for a cease-fire, saying Israel’s battle to crush Gaza’s ruling Hamas militants will continue with “full force.”
Reassuring to see this commitment to total eradication of Hamas and its supporters.
Hamas' murdering 1400 civilians, including burning snd beheading babies, and kidnapping over 200 others, including babies, the elderly and the disabled, warrants nothing less than and all out assault from the only democracy in the Middle East.
About 250,000 Israelis have been forced to evacuate from communities near Gaza and along the northern border with Lebanon,
There is a humanitarian crisis in Israel, and aid is needed to assist with these innocent civilians. Hamas and other Islamic terrorists continue to commit war crimes by shooting rockets at civilian populated areas.
Yrral
Israel is doomed, when you have majority Whites people around the world against you and people of colors,who got your back
dbsaiya
Send Kamikawa and Kishida to "take the lead' in the Mideast. That's what they were spewing out of their mouths yesterday....
bass4funk
Yes, I just don’t support Hamas and I agree, Hamas should be taken out and pacified. I’m a staunch Israel supporter.
Chabbawanga
And Hamas wins. Israel, blinded by blood lust, has given hamas exactly what they wanted. The world stands with Palestine. Israeli war crimes have shown the zionists true motive, and their supporters in US and European politics have lost the confidence of their people.
Somwhere between 500,000-1milliion people marched in London yesterday in solidarity against violence. This is the world I want to live in.
M3M3M3
The ICC has jurisdiction in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. The State of Palestine been a signatory to the Rome statute since 2015.
naitch
Palestinians how are under occupation have the right to defend itself and not the occupier(Israel)....
u_s__reamer
With the world-shocking carnage in Gaza Netanyahu is the last straw that broke the camel's back of Israel's image in the world, the one which has been carefully curated by American and allied governments, the Western press and Jewish money. Unloved and indeed reviled by the majority of Israelis this right-wing psychopath has now established his place in history as the "Hitler" of his nation who ruined Israel's reputation as a civilized nation. Many, like me, will now be catching up on the dark history of Zionism - in my case reading "The Gun and the Olive Branch" that has lain for 20 years on my shelf unread.
Simon Foston
yipyipToday 08:01 am JST
Why's it reassuring? They'll never actually be able to do it.
Apparently now it's only 1200. I wonder what else they might have exaggerated. In any case it could and should have been stopped by the same people whose commitment you find so reassuring.
Chabbawanga
Revised down. Expect further revisions. Probably half if you dont count those murdered by IDF friendly fire
TaiwanIsNotChina
I suppose you also think it was 250 friendly kidnapped?
itsonlyrocknroll
This latest, the most bloody, grisly and gruesome conflict the Israel Arab have known for decades.
Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah have brought a war to Palestine, I suggest even in the darkest depths of Islamic extremist fundamentalism, the hate, the hostility, finally led on the 7th October an atrocity to facilitate that overwhelming need to act, satisfy the detestation, the repugnance, the abomination of the Jew….
The Global community, in various states of political diplomatic incompetence, headless, any past influence ebbing away, faced a Arab world left stunned, horrified by the lack of a clear foreign policy to counter the reality of an Israeli Government determined to never again make a gross error of judgement.
Europe relegated to a political gibbering wreak, the French President impotence to raise even a modicum of a clear precise domestic strategy to pacify his Arab communities.
The UK capital city London a pro-Palestinian marching on Armistice day reported 800,000 flag waving, banners held aloft threatening recrimination on UK Jewish communities.
Firstly, these so called 4 hours “step backs”, lulls in outright hostility, need to be taken advantage of fully.
Places of safety for the tens of thousand cowering in and around hospitals schools etc. need to be created under an agreed the UN buffer zone.
Independent UN observers, should be on the ground.
To verify exactly if Hamas network labyrinth of tunnel command canters are as IDF intel suggests under hospitals.
Be in no doubt, the war currently on Gaza surface is about to move underground.
The IDF won’t turn back now.
A thought, Israel powerful US lobby should never be underestimated.
Next visit to your local library….
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Author: John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt….
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374531508/theisraellobbyandusforeignpolicy
Mearsheimer and Walt describe in clear and bold terms the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argues that this support cannot be fully explained on either strategic or moral grounds. This exceptional relationship is due largely to the political influence of a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction.
bass4funk
Judging by the growing Hamas body count I would tend to disagree.
Well, considering college these days are not producing the best and brightest of the next generation, not surprising. Remember, we are dealing with a segment that honors pronouns and think there are over 40 genders, so not in the least surprised.
And the atrocities and sheer carnage of Hamas has shown how barbaric these….thugs are.
Not really.
Ok, great, but they’re not going to stop the IDF from taking out Hamas, they could have 5 million protesters and it wouldn’t matter to spit.
stormcrow
If Hamas would release the 200+ hostages its holding would make things easier.
wallace
Allow the UN to enter Gaza.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Yes the UN should take its army and enforce peace in Gaza. Oh wait...
Chabbawanga
What absolute drivel. Of course there may have been a couple of incidents when you have 800,000 people gathered in one place, but this is a terrible representation of the march. There were thousands of Jewish people on the march too, standing up for what is right, and they were shown the respect they deserve for being peace loving and decent people.
wallace
The UN does not have an army but it does have observers and aid workers which are badly needed for the suffering Arab civilians. Already 11,000 dead.
u_s__reamer
If Hamas would release the 200+ hostages its holding would make things easier.
No it wouldn't. Netanyahu has other plans. That said Hamas should seize the opportunity of taking a moral lead over the murderous ethnic cleansing that some in the extreme right-wing Israeli government seem determined to implement.
bass4funk
Expect the number to climb, sad thing is, Hama could care less. Pathetic.
wallace
How does that fit in with your support for the Palestinian Arabs? You don't care about the number of civilians killed. Just blame Hamas for everything.
itsonlyrocknroll
Wallace, this would be a place to start.
The so called quote Israel agrees to 4-hour daily pauses in Gaza fighting to allow civilians to flee, needs the UN to push lobby for UN independent observers to guide the refugees to place of safety.
It could be a pointless endeavor, yet understandable humane response, to find the photo above implication frankly repulsive, and thus proportion blame.
However, the danger of this war, its possible conclusion could just be a beginning, Hezbollah/West Bank/Lebanon is fully exposed.
Soon after, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told troops near the Israel-Lebanon border: "Hezbollah is dragging Lebanon into a war that might happen.
"It is making mistakes and ... those who will pay the price are first and foremost Lebanon's citizens. What we are doing in Gaza we can do in Beirut."
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hezbollah-says-front-with-israel-will-remain-active-2023-11-11/
bass4funk
It does.
Yes
Redemption
Hell on Earth. Strategically Israel has momentum and would be foolish to stop, on the other hand Hamas must have expected this to happen so I wonder if it is a huge trap. I think we can expect a proliferation of terrorism worldwide now.
Raw Beer
Why? Because they took hostages to exchange for the several thousand Palestinian hostages held by Israel, including many women and children?
Just this year, before Oct 7, many Palestinians have been killed by Israelis. Is that unforgivable? And that includes within the West Bank, so we can't blame Hamas for that.
What truly is unforgivable is that the international community has let the Palestinians down for many decades. And they are doing so again now.
stormcrow
@us reamer
But you are in favor of Hamas releasing the 200+ women & children Hamas is holding hostage, aren't you?
bass4funk
Hope not, but nowadays you just don't know, sadly.
Raw Beer
Yes, and that 1,200 death toll includes many members of the israeli forces. Members of an illegal occupation force are legit targets. Also, we must keep in mind that many israeli civilians were killed by the israeli forces (soldiers, tanks, helicopters) who fired at anything that moved and houses occupied by Hamas with Israeli civilians.
Hamas has called for an independent international investigation of Oct 7.
u_s__reamer
But you are in favor of Hamas releasing the 200+ women & children Hamas is holding hostage, aren't you?
Of course. But are you ready to accept that a hostage swap (for some thousands of young Palestinians) was perhaps the principal motivation for the Hamas attack on Oct 7? We'll know more of the truth when the smoke clears and the blood is washed from the streets.