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Netanyahu says Israel will occupy all of Gaza if Hamas refuses to disarm
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said in an interview with Channel 14 that Israel would occupy all of Gaza if Hamas refused to disarm. Netanyahu also commented on Iran’s nuclear program, a Palestinian state and Israeli settler attacks in the West Bank, and criticized the United Kingdom.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed the war in Gaza as well as Iran, Lebanon, Syria and the occupied West Bank in remarks to Channel 14 television, which is close to his government.
Netanyahu said Israel would occupy all of Gaza if Hamas refused to disarm. Claiming that Israel’s operations in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria were not over, Netanyahu asserted that Israel faced new threats.
Iran’s nuclear program
Claiming that Iran had not abandoned its nuclear program, Netanyahu argued that the authorities in Tehran were determined to restart it in order to produce an atomic bomb.
Netanyahu said that although the program had previously been set back, the threat had not been eliminated. He asserted that he would not allow Iran to restart its nuclear program as long as he remained prime minister. Asked whether the Iranian government would be overthrown, he responded by claiming that the country had become weaker and more unstable than it was previously.
A Palestinian state and the West Bank
Netanyahu argued that he had not allowed the establishment of a Palestinian state and would not permit such an entity in the future. Speaking about attacks by Israelis who had seized Palestinian land in the West Bank, he described them as “a small number of young people” and played down the scale of the incidents.
“Do you want to enter a village? You cannot enter. This is not your job. There is an army there, there is police, there is a government.”
Netanyahu said that the army, police and government were present in the area. He argued that the seizure of Palestinian land and illegal settlement activity had been harmed by the attacks, and that the incidents had also damaged Israel’s reputation worldwide.
Claiming that international media and the Israeli media had exaggerated the increase in attacks in the West Bank, Netanyahu also targeted the British government, asserting that people in the United Kingdom had been summoned for questioning over their social media posts.
Political landscape ahead of the election
Netanyahu’s Likud Party is trailing the Yashar Party of former Chief of the General Staff Gadi Eisenkot in opinion polls ahead of the elections scheduled for October 27.
Public discussion has suggested that Netanyahu is campaigning through fear-based rhetoric and has toughened the tone of his statements in an effort to win votes.
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