Israel’s dismantling of Hamas in northern Gaza may mark ‘starting of the tip’, says Netanyahu adviser
A senior adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed Sky News that Israel’s wrapping up of main fight operations in northern Gaza may mark “the start of the tip” of the battle.
Mark Regev stated Israeli forces have been making certain the “destruction of Hamas’s army machine” within the north.
“Of course, there nonetheless may be small squads of Hamas fighters there that we’ve got to nonetheless mop up. But we will say that we have had important success there within the northern Gaza Strip,” he stated.
Mr Regev stated any rebuilding and return of Palestinians to the realm would “have to attend for the tip of fight operations”.
However, he stated there was hope that Palestinians may return to their properties “within the not too distant future”.
Asked whether or not he anticipated the warfare to final one other three months or longer, Mr Regev stated destroying Hamas “will take time”, however added: “That doesn’t suggest that it is going to be extra of the identical essentially.”
He says Israeli forces will attain the same scenario within the south as they’ve within the north.
“We will blow up [Hamas’s] subterranean terror community, the tunnels, the underground launching websites, the headquarters… and because the operation strikes ahead, there is a change within the techniques.”
The adviser stated he agreed with US secretary of state Antony Blinken’s earlier feedback that there have been too many civilian deaths in Gaza.
“We did not need to see a single civilian dying, and we have tried to make a most effort to keep away from civilian deaths,” he instructed Sky News.
However, he claimed the variety of civilians getting caught within the crossfire “has been taking place”.
Questioned on whether or not there was any disagreement between Israel and the US on post-conflict safety, after Mr Blinken stated Washington “had a imaginative and prescient” for Gaza’s future, Mr Regev stated the 2 nations agreed on the “general technique” to make sure Hamas is “destroyed”.
“There may be no solutions on what comes afterwards,” he stated.
“We wish to see a authorities by Palestinians, for Palestinians… that insists on the demilitarisation of the Gaza Strip and de-radicalisation.”
