{"id":308976,"date":"2025-05-20T05:55:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T05:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=308976"},"modified":"2025-05-22T06:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T06:00:42","slug":"netanyahu-says-israel-will-control-all-of-gaza-as-regime-expands-ground-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=308976","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu says Israel will ‘control all of Gaza’ as regime expands ground operations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 May 19, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Israel\u2019s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the regime plans to “take control of all” of the Gaza Strip, as his military launched a newly expanded offensive in the besieged territory.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a video posted to his Telegram channel, Netanyahu said “The fighting is intense and we are making progress. We will take control of all the territory of the Strip.”<\/p>\n

“We will not give up,\u201d he added, noting that the regime \u201cmust act in a way that cannot be stopped” in order to achieve this goal.<\/p>\n

He noted that the decision to allow a small number of aid trucks into Gaza later on Monday, the first in nearly two months, was made to avoid international backlash.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must not let the population of Gaza sink into famine, both for practical and diplomatic reasons,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu revealed that close allies, including pro-Israel US senators, had called on him to allow some aid to avoid images of mass starvation, which could undermine international support.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur best friends in the world, senators who are passionate supporters of Israel, came to me and said they would provide all the assistance needed to achieve victory: weapons, backing for eliminating Hamas, and protection at the UN Security Council,\u201d Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut there\u2019s one thing they said they cannot support: images of mass starvation. \u2018We cannot stand by you in that situation,\u2019 they told me. So, in order to achieve victory, we must address that problem,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Backing Netanyahu’s decision, far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said it will allow \u201cour friends in the world to continue to provide us with an international umbrella of protection against the Security Council and the Hague Court.”<\/p>\n

Israel launched the campaign of genocide in Gaza on October 7, 2023. It has killed more than 53,000 Palestinians there so far, according to the health ministry of Gaza.<\/p>\n

In January, the Israeli regime was forced to agree to a ceasefire deal with Hamas given the regime\u2019s failure to achieve any of its objectives, including the \u201celimination\u201d of the Palestinian resistance movement or the release of captives.<\/p>\n

The 42-day stage of the truce, which was marred by repeated Israeli violations, expired on March 1, but Israel is refraining from stepping into talks for the second stage of the agreement.<\/p>\n

On March 18, the regime resumed the strikes on Gaza, breaking the nearly two-month-long ceasefire.<\/p>\n

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So far the IDF has killed more than 53,000 Palestinians, according to the health ministry of Gaza, and that\u2019s a conservative estimate. Despite the mounting civilian casualties however, the IDF has still failed to achieve its objective to destroy Hamas <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":295884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308978,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308976\/revisions\/308978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/295884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}