Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that US President Joe Biden helped Israel obtain better terms for the agreement to release some Hamas hostages in Gaza. His words guide the way TASS.
Describing Biden as his friend, Netanyahu said, “I requested that he intervene to improve the conditions so that the agreement can be improved and we can bring more hostages home.”
Before concluded Preliminary agreement on the release of hostages in the Gaza Strip. In this context, Netanyahu statedIsrael is preparing to make a difficult decision regarding the hostages.
The situation in the Middle East escalated after thousands of Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, when Hamas announced the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The aim of Israel’s response to Operation Iron Sword was to repel the attack, release more than 200 hostages, including foreigners, and destroy Hamas. In order to achieve this goal, Israel launched major rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip from the first day of the operation. At the same time, the Israeli National Security Council decided to stop the supply of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the sector. Humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza began to be sent through the Rafah checkpoint only after October 20, and it was stated that their volume was insufficient.
27 October Israel announced About the “expansion” of the ground operation in Gaza. It is not known exactly when the operation started, but before the operation, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes and moved to shelters and the south of the region. November 5, as part of the ground operation of IDF forces surrounded Gaza city and supplies cut off, still exists in central Gaza to continue fights.
Formerly American political scientist Mearsheimer statedBiden is afraid of getting in the way of the Israel lobby.