Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Thursday evening Paris, London and Ottawa of encouraging “Hamas” to fight indefinitely, after the three capitals denounced “disgraceful actions” of his government in the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu said in a video in which he spoke in English that French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Kiir Starmer and Canadian Mark Carney “want Israel to surrender, accept the survival of the Hamas army, to reorganize their ranks, and to repeat the massacre of October over and over again.”
“They may think that they contribute to advancing peace, but they do not do this. Likewise, they are encouraging enthusiasm to continue fighting indefinitely.”
“Disgraceful verbs”
Macron, Starmer and Carne warned last Monday in a joint statement that they would not stand “idle” about the “shameful actions” of the Israeli government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu in Gaza, waving “concrete measures” if it does not initiate to stop its military operation and provide the entry of humanitarian aid.
“We are determined to recognize a Palestinian state within the framework of a two -state solution and we are ready to work with others to achieve this end,” the joint statement said, referring to the conference scheduled for June at the United Nations “to find international consensus on this goal.”
“They give them hope for the establishment of a second Palestinian state, through which Hamas is seeking to destroy the Jewish state,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu faces criticism inside and outside Israel for the continuation of the destroyed war on Gaza 20 months ago, and the starvation war that affects the inhabitants of the besieged Strip, which numbered 2.2 million.
Israel has faced a wave of Western and international criticism recently with the intensification of aggression on Gaza, as humanitarian groups warned that the 11 weeks of Israeli blockade of aid supplies had left the Palestinian sector on the brink of the abyss.
With absolute American support, Israel has committed since October 7, 2023, genocide crimes in Gaza, which left more than 175,000 Palestinians between a martyr and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11 thousand missing, along with hundreds of thousands of displaced people.
