Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed that Israeli forces must \u2018destroy Hamas\u2019 in order to secure the future of Palestinians as well as the Jewish state.<\/p>\n
\u2018If you want peace, destroy Hamas. If you want security, destroy Hamas. If you want a future for Israel, the Palestinians, the Middle East, destroy Hamas,\u2019 Netanyahu told \u2018Meet the Press\u2019 host Kristen Welker during an appearance on the NBC Sunday program. \u2018We\u2019re absolutely intent on achieving it. And what I can tell you, [Kristen], is given the extraordinary performance of the Israeli army in the last few days, the last few weeks, we\u2019re going to achieve it. We\u2019ll do it with as few civilian casualties as we can and with maximum casualties on the Hamas terrorists, which we are achieving day by day, hour by hour, will complete the task.\u2019<\/p>\n
Vowing that the goal is to minimize civilian casualties, Netanyahu said he has not set a deadline for defeating Hamas, but he predicted the task would not take many years and would take less time than it took the United States and the international coalition to defeat ISIS or to defeat al Qaeda. Netanyahu did not have a concrete answer on when a deal would be secured with Hamas about the release of hostages but vowed that \u2018military pressure\u2019 via the operation in Gaza is maintaining proper pressure for an agreement to eventually be reached.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Netanyahu also told Welker that a \u2018new authority\u2019 or a \u2018new administration\u2019 will be needed to govern Gaza after the war but that the specifics are too early to determine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Netanyahu also appeared on CNN\u2019s \u2018State of the Union\u2019 on Sunday and addressed reports of people being trapped at Al-Shifa Hospital inside Gaza amid heavy Israeli shelling. Israeli officials have accused Hamas of building terror infrastructure under hospitals, and Netanyahu has said he called on the international community for help getting people out.<\/p>\n
\u2018We\u2019ve called to evacuate all the patients from that hospital,\u2019 Netanyahu told CNN.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018And in fact, 100 or so have already been evacuated,\u2019 Netanyahu said. \u2018I\u2019ve called for field hospitals. The French president has sent a floating hospital ship. I\u2019ve asked the [United Arab] Emirates to send a field hospital. They have. And other countries have done the same. I expect the U.N. to build it. So, there\u2019s no reason why we just can\u2019t take the patients out of there instead of letting Hamas use it as a command center for terrorism, for the rockets that they fire against Israel, for the terror tunnels that they use to kill Israeli civilians.\u2019<\/p>\n
The prime minister also had a message for those protesting against Israel in Europe, the United States and across the world as the war rages against Hamas.<\/p>\n
\u2018But those who are those who protest for Hamas, you\u2019re protesting for sheer evil,\u2019 Netanyahu said during his NBC appearance. \u2018There are a lot of misguided people out there who don\u2019t know the facts. You\u2019re talking to people who deliberately targeted civilians \u2013 raped and murdered, women were raped \u2013 who beheaded men, who burned babies alive, who kidnaped little babies in the hospital, [and the] Holocaust survivors, you name it. These are the people that you supporting now.\u2019<\/p>\n\n
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed that Israeli forces must \u2018destroy Hamas\u2019 in order to secure the future of Palestinians as well as the Jewish state. \u2018If you want peace, destroy Hamas. If you want security, destroy Hamas. If you want a future for Israel, the Palestinians, the Middle East, destroy Hamas,\u2019 Netanyahu told <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}