Netanyahu defends the planned military offensive in Gaza and is unleashed at “ global campaign of lies ”

On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to defend a new military offensive in one of the most populous areas of Gaza, in the midst of growing conviction in the country and abroad, declaring that Israel “has no choice but to finish work and finish the defeat of Hamas”.

He spoke with foreign media a few minutes before an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council in Gaza. In particular, Netanyahu said that he had ordered the soldiers of Israel in recent days to “bring more foreign journalists”, which would be a striking development because they were not authorized in Gaza beyond the military for 22 months of war.

“Our goal is not to occupy Gaza; our goal is to release Gaza,” said Netanyahu. He also rejected what he called a “global campaign of lies” – and said that Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Germany, one of the strongest donors in Israel, had “completed under” by announcing that Germany will not authorize the exports of military equipment in Israel which could be used in Gaza until further notice.

On Saturday, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Germany, Canada, Austria, Australia, Italy, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom condemned Netanyahu’s plan to take over Gaza.

“This will aggravate the catastrophic humanitarian situation, will endanger the life of hostages and risk more the mass movement of civilians,” they said in a joint statement, noting that attempts to annex and extend international regulations.

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Netanyahu said there was a “short enough” calendar “in mind for the next stages in Gaza, but did not give details. The goals there, he said, include the demilitarization of the territory, the Israeli army having a “security control or non-Israeli civil administration in charge.

Netanyahu has again blamed many Gaza problems on the Hamas militant group, including civil deaths, destruction and aid shortages. “Hamas still has thousands of armed terrorists in Gaza,” he said, adding that the Palestinians “beg” the world of being released from them.

The Israeli Prime Minister, who said that there is “no famine in Gaza,” said hunger there, saying “that there was a problem of deprivation, without any doubt”. Israel wants to increase the number of aid distribution sites, he said, but has given no details.

Netanyahu must speak later Sunday for the Israeli public.

More Palestinians killed as they seek help

At least 26 Palestinians were killed while they were looking for help from Gaza, hospitals and witnesses said, while families of Israeli hostages called for a general strike to protest against Netanyahu’s plans to extend military operations to Gaza City.

Hospital officials said they had received regions where the Palestinians were looking for help, along the food roads or aid distribution points at a private pace through Gaza.

The dead included 15 killed while waiting for aid trucks near the newly built Morag corridor which separates the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Younis, according to Nasser Hospital.

According to the Ministry of Health and Shifa Hospital in Gaza, six others were killed while waiting for aid in northern Gaza near the Zikim crossing, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health and the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

In the center of Gaza, witnesses said he had heard warning plans before the fire is addressed to the crowds of assistance seekers trying to reach a food distribution site operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation supported by the United States and funded by the United States. The AP could not confirm independently which fired the gunshots. The AWDA hospital in the Nuseirat neighboring refugee said that four people had been killed by Israeli shots.

“First of all, it was in the air, then they started shooting people,” said Sayed Awda, who waited hundreds of meters from the GHF site.

Six other help seekers were killed while trying to reach GHF sites in Khan Younis and Rafah, Nasser Hospital said.

The GHF sites opened in May as an alternative to the ununcted help system, but its first operations were spoiled by death and chaos, the help seekers being under gunshots near the routes leading to the sites.

Responding to AP surveys, the GHF media office said: “There was no incident on or near our sites today and these incidents seem to be linked to crowds trying to loot a help convoy.”

The Israeli army said there were no incidents involving Israeli troops near the Gaza central aid sites.

Seven people were killed in air strikes, local hospitals said – three people near the wearing of fishermen in Gaza City and four people, including two children, in a strike that hit a tent at Khan Younis. The Israeli army did not immediately comment on strikes, but accused Hamas of operating in civil zones.

The number of deaths of hunger among children strikes 100

The air and soil offensive of Israel has moved most of the Gaza population and pushed the territory to famine. On Saturday, two other Palestinian children died of causes related to malnutrition, bearing the toll among children at 100 since the start of the war.

In total, 117 adults died of causes related to malnutrition since the end of June when the ministry began to count this age category, he said.

The assessment of hunger is not included in the number of deaths of the ministry of 61,400 Palestinians in the war. The ministry, which is part of the government managed by Hamas and endowed with health professionals, does not distinguish between combatants or civilians, but says that around half of the dead have been women and children. The UN and independent experts consider it the most reliable source on the victims of the war.

The labor strike urged Israel for an imminent offensive

Benching families and hostage relatives still organized in Gaza urged Israeli companies to declare a general strike next week. Tens of thousands of Israelis joined Tel Aviv on Saturday evening in what local media called one of the largest anti-government demonstrations in recent months.

Families and their supporters fear that the expansion of the war puts their loved ones in danger. Among the hostages taken in the attacks of October 7 led by Hamas, which sparked the war in Gaza, 50 remain on the territory, 20 of those who would be alive.

Lishay Miran-Lavi, whose husband, Omri, is part of the hostages, called on US President Donald Trump and Steve Witkoff’s special envoy to stop the fighting.

“The decision to send the army more deeply to Gaza is a danger to my husband, Omri. But we can still stop this disaster,” she said.

Also Sunday, the Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz visited the northern part of the West Bank occupied by Israeli, where around 40,000 Palestinians were driven out of their homes this year in the largest trip of the West Bank since Israel captured the territory in 1967.

Israel says that operations are necessary to eliminate activism, because the violence of all parties has increased since the start of the war in Gaza. Katz said the soldiers would remain in the region’s refugee camps at least until the end of the year, and said that the number of warnings concerning attacks on Israelis in the West Bank had decreased 80% since the start of the operation in January.