Member of Israel’s war cabinet Benny Gantz will hold a press conference in Kfar Maccabiah this evening at 8pm (7pm in Italy), after canceling the one scheduled for last night in which he was supposed to announce his withdrawal from the government coalition. According to the newspaper Times of Israelwhich reported the news, the postponement “was apparently a tactical decision in light of yesterday’s rescue of four Israeli hostages from Gaza,” and the National Unity Party he would still intend to leave the government due to the prime minister’s lack of response Benjamin Netanyahu to the ultimatum launched by Gantz when, in recent weeks, he had asked for a plan for Gaza by June 8th. It was of no use, therefore, the appeal from Netanyahu to the former general so that he does not abandon the national emergency government: “We are not giving up on unity, even today we must continue to show responsibility.”
Meanwhile, the Israeli government celebrates the release of Noa Argamani, Almog Meir, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv with the coordinated intelligence and army blitz in two different places in Nuseirat (photo), in the central part of the Strip. the government approved the prime minister’s proposal to name the operation after the commander of the Anti-Terrorism unit, the chief inspector proclaimed “hero of Israel” Arnon Zamora. “The world – the Israeli Foreign Minister wrote in a message on Israel Katz – admired the courage, determination and ability demonstrated by Israel with the operation to free the hostages. Many sent messages of support, but only Israel’s enemies protested for the victims among Hamas terrorists and their accomplices, accusing Israel of war crimes”. “We wholeheartedly reject these allegations. We will continue to act with determination and force, in accordance with our right to self-defense, until all hostages are released and Hamas is defeated,” concludes Katz. Satisfaction on the part of Family Forum of the hostages who spoke of a “heroic operation”. But he specifies that “the ceasefire agreement is still on the table, and it is only this that can bring home the living for rehabilitation and the dead for burial.” Thus, during yesterday’s protests in Israel, the Netanyhau government was asked to reach an agreement as soon as possible to bring the other hostages home. In addition to the request for the prime minister’s immediate resignation. During the demonstration Tel Avivwhich also recorded incidents, police reported 33 arrests.
Support for Israel has come from Pentagon. From its account on White. Convictions instead came fromIran which highlights the high number of Palestinian deaths, 274 according to Hamas, who already yesterday had spoken of 210 dead and at least 400 injured due to the raid in the Nuseirat refugee camp. Balance which, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health, brings the overall figure of Palestinian deaths to 37,084 since the beginning of the conflict. Tehran’s Foreign Ministry speaks of “the result of the inaction of responsible governments and international bodies, including the United Nations Security Council, facing eight months of war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law by the occupying Israeli regime.” According to the official, too Europe they United States they are responsible for what happened, because they continued to supply weapons to Israel. So the Türkiye: “With this latest barbaric attack, Israel has added another crime to the list of those it has committed in Gaza,” reads a statement from the Foreign Ministry in Ankara, which asks the UN Security Council to exercise its responsibility , recalling that Israel “is on trial before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for violating its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention”.
Meanwhile, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that Military operations continue throughout the Gaza Strip. In particular, we read, troops of the 198th Division are operating in the city of Deir al Balah and in the refugee camp of Bureij, after taking part in the liberation of four hostages, in which “many terrorists were eliminated and terrorist infrastructures were dismantled”. The soldiers on the ground receive support from the air force’s fighters. In the southern area of RafahInstead, the 162nd Division is in action, conducting operations based on intelligence information and has located several tunnels and vertical conduits and large quantities of weapons, explosives and military equipment. The 99th Division operates in the center of Gaza, with the task of dismantling terrorist infrastructure. In the south of Gaza City, several mortar shells were fired at Israeli troops at the Islamic University of the capital city, without injuring anyone. The launch position was then hit in an air raid, the IDF said. Finally, according to the Israeli military, in one of the numerous air force actions, a tactical level commander of the Islamic Jihad was hit.
