by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent
(Worthy News) – As Israel’s strongest ally, the United States, has now joined the European Union and the UN in demanding an immediate ceasefire in the war against Hamas, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Monday that Jerusalem has “no moral right” to stop fighting before it has completely dismantled the Palestinian terror group’s capabilities in Gaza, Israel365 News reports.
Israel completely, unilaterally, withdrew from Gaza in 2005, forcibly removing Jewish civilians from their homes in the hopes that this would enable the Palestinians to begin building a state. The jihadist group Hamas was immediately elected in 2006, in what was the last parliamentary election in the enclave. Since then, and with the specifically stated aim of destroying Israel at the cost of destroying its own people, Hamas took the many billions of dollars which poured in from the world and, instead of building a state, used the funds to enrich its leaders, to build a vast network of tunnels beneath civilian infrastructure in which to hide themselves and their weapons behind civilians, and to wage a continual war of terror against Israel.
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas carried out the worst assault on the Jewish people since the Holocaust, slaughtering around 1,200 mostly civilian Israelis, and torturing, raping, and kidnapping hundreds of other women, children, and babies among men and soldiers. This event triggered Israel’s ongoing defensive war in Gaza, with the aim of dismantling Hamas once and for all.
The world’s support for Israel soon wore off and, amongst accusations of war crimes and genocide, on Monday the UN Security Council passed Resolution 2728 (2024), calling, again, for an immediate ceasefire. For the first time, the US refused to veto the motion, and it passed. While the resolution calls for the immediate release of the remaining 136 Israeli hostages (including women and tiny children), there is no mention of Hamas’ atrocities on Oct. 7: the resolution equates Israel with Hamas.
In Washington to meet White House officials on Monday, Gallant warned: “The lack of a decisive victory in Gaza may bring us closer to a war in the north. I came here to reflect the importance of strengthening the IDF and empowering the State of Israel. I will stress the importance of destroying Hamas and returning the hostages.”
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