“Hamas will no longer rule Gaza,” says Benjamin Netanyahu

“Evil has taken a severe blow but the task ahead of us is not yet finished,” added the Israeli Prime Minister.

A change in the war in the Middle East? “Hamas will no longer rule Gaza” after the death of its leader Yahya Sinouar, said the Israeli Prime Minister on Thursday October 17. “Evil has taken a severe blow but the task before us is not yet finished”added Benjamin Netanyahu in a public statement, before explaining that it was a question of“an important step” in the decline of Hamas, responsible for the unprecedented attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, and against which Israel has been at war for more than a year in the Gaza Strip.

Benjamin Netanyahu also offered anyone holding Israeli hostages in Gaza “laying down our arms and returning our hostages will allow him to continue living”. “The return of our hostages is an opportunity to achieve all our goals and it brings us closer to the end of the war”explained the Prime Minister, assuring the families of the hostages that the death of Yahya Sinouar was “an important moment” in this war.

“The reasons why we insisted on continuing the war are now clear to everyone in Israel and around the world,” he said, referring in particular to the land offensive in Rafah, in the far south of the territory. At least 42,438 Palestinians were killed, mostly civilians, in the Israeli offensive in Gaza, according to data from the Hamas government’s Health Ministry, deemed reliable by the UN.