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Netanyahu
says Israel aims for 'total victory', followed by 'demilitarized and
de-radicalized' post-war Gaza
Benjamin
Netanyahu says that Israel will achieve “total victory” and that it will settle
for “nothing less”.
Total
victory, he says, means that Israel will fight until it destroys Hamas’s
military capability, end its rule in Gaza and bring all the hostages home.
The Israeli
prime minister moves on to talk about a post-war Gaza, and says that “a new
Gaza could emerge” the day after Hamas is defeated.
He says that
his vision for a post-war Gaza is of a “demilitarized and de-radicalized Gaza”,
adding:
Israel does
not seek to settle Gaza. But for the foreseeable future, we must retain
overriding security control there to prevent the resurgence of terror, to
ensure that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel.
Netanyahu
says that Gaza should have a civilian administration “run by Palestinians who
do not seek to destroy Israel” and that a new generation of Palestinians “must
no longer be taught to hate Jews”.
He notes
that the terms “demilitarization” and “deradicalization” were applied to
Germany and Japan after the second world war, and that applied to Gaza “can
also lead to a future of security, prosperity and peace”. “That’s my vision for
Gaza,” Netanyahu says.
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