{"id":43965,"date":"2024-05-06T08:37:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T08:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/06\/netanyahu-asserts-israels-right-to-fight-its-enemies-in-defiant-speech\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T08:37:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T08:37:02","slug":"netanyahu-asserts-israels-right-to-fight-its-enemies-in-defiant-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/06\/netanyahu-asserts-israels-right-to-fight-its-enemies-in-defiant-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu Asserts Israel\u2019s Right to Fight Its Enemies in Defiant Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Sunday rejected international pressure to rein in its military campaign in Gaza and, speaking at a Holocaust memorial, asserted Israel\u2019s right to fight its \u201cgenocidal enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nearly seven months into the war, Mr. Netanyahu has been steadfast in his goal of destroying Hamas. This, and Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s insistence on sending troops into Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip, has complicated efforts to end the fighting and raised concerns about the future of the hostages held by Hamas.<\/p>\n

But Mr. Netanyahu has remained defiant.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, he spoke at Yad Vashem<\/a>, Israel\u2019s Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, to mark the national Holocaust remembrance day. Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7 attack, he said, was not a \u201cHolocaust\u201d \u2014 not because Hamas did not have the intention to destroy Israel but because of its inability to do so. About 1,200 people were killed and more than 200 were taken hostage that day, Israeli authorities say. Hamas\u2019s intention, Mr. Netanyahu said, was the same as that of the Nazis.<\/p>\n

In his speech<\/a>, which lasted for about 15 minutes and was largely in Hebrew, Mr. Netanyahu rejected accusations that Israel was committing genocide in the Gaza Strip. Since the beginning of the war, Gazan authorities say Israeli troops have killed more than 34,000 people, many of them women and children, though the statistics do not differentiate between civilians and combatants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n