Israel’s prime minister has pledged to continue the fight against Hamas “until the end”.
“Until we achieve victory, the war continues,” he told a news conference.
“The day before yesterday, I instructed the IDF, along with the war cabinet, to resume the war with increasing intensity over the past 24 hours.
“We are going to continue with the war until we achieve all of its objectives. And you cannot achieve these objectives without continuing the ground manoeuvre.”
He said 400 Hamas targets had been “eliminated” since the ceasefire ended on Friday.
“In the north, we are also constantly acting against any attempt of Hezbollah to act against us.
“We are intercepting terror units; we are distancing the enemy from the border and we are targeting all their means of warfare.”
Mr Netanyahu placed these military objectives in the context of getting hostages out of Gaza, saying “we will do everything we can in order to bring them all back home”.
‘Humanitarian pauses should be resumed,’ says top EU foreign policy chief
Josep Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, has called for humanitarian pauses in fighting to be resumed.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Mr Borrell said that since hostilities resumed, the “already high civilian death toll continues to increase”.
He said it is “imperative” Israel respects International Humanitarian Law and the “wars of law”.
“This is not only a moral obligation, but a legal one as well,” he wrote.
“Humanitarian pauses should be resumed, while simultaneously working towards a comprehensive political solution for all the Palestinian territories.”
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