Gaza: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu vows to fight on as calls for ceasefire mount
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he will continue the war “until absolute victory” despite the latest calls from the UK and Germany for a ceasefire in the war that has taken the lives of thousands of people, largely civilians.
The Israeli leader told a press conference on Saturday evening that Israel Israel remains “relentless” in its military and diplomatic efforts “to bring back all the hostages home safely.”
He went on to declare that the use of force is vital for victory and that this approach, he said, had resulted in the release of 100 hostages.
Netanyahu said: “The assumption of entering negotiations is based on this (military) pressure without this pressure we have nothing.
Egypt and Qatar have been pushing for a ceasefire so that Israel can secure the release of many of the hostages in Gaza
The UK Foreign Secretary, Lord Cameron and Germany’s Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, have also called for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war.
Cameron and Baerbock in an article jointly written for the UK’s Sunday Times, explained that: “Our goal cannot simply be an end to fighting today. It must be peace lasting for days, years, generations.”
Earlier in the week, the two countries abstained over a United Nations resolution, backed by 153 countries, demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.
More than 18,700 people have been killed and 50,000 injured in the enclave since the start of the Gaza war.
