Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was interviewed this evening by Fox News and commented on the cabinet meeting and the decision expected to be made on the takeover of Gaza. In an interview with Fox News today (Thursday), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked if Israel would take control of all of Gaza. He answered that "we intend to, in order to ensure our security, remove Hamas there, enable the population to be free of [Hamas], and to pass it to civilian governance that is not Hamas and not anyone who seeks the destruction of Israel. We want to liberate ourselves and the people of Gaza from the awful terror of Hamas."
He noted that interviewer Bill Hemmer visited the Gaza Strip today and met Gazans who oppose Hamas. "Finally, they see that they have a future. They can rid themselves of this awful tyranny that not only hold our hostages, but holds two million Palestinians in Gaza hostage. That's got to end." When asked if Israel wants to reverse the Disengagement from Gaza that was carried out 20 years ago this month, Netanyahu responded: "We don't want to keep it.
We want a security perimeter, [but] we don't want to govern it. We don't want to be there as a governing body. We want to hand it over to Arab forces that will govern it properly without threatening us, and giving Gazans a good life. That's not possible with Hamas." "The only way that you're going to have a different future is to get rid of this neo-Nazi army. Hamas are monsters," Netanyahu declared. (Read More)