Netanyahu refuses to rule out further strikes on Hamas leaders

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not rule out more strikes against Hamas leaders after last week’s attack in Qatar, saying they would not be immunity “wherever they are.”

Speaking at a press conference in Jerusalem with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Netanyahu said that every country has the right to “defend itself outside its borders.”

Israel’s decision to target Hamas leaders in Qatar – an American ally – sparked international anger and criticizing US President Donald Trump. Hamas said six people were killed, but its leaders survived.

Netanyahu’s comments come days after the White House said that Trump confirmed that Qatar “said that such a thing will not happen again on their soil.”

When pressing whether the United States has any involvement in the strike, Netanyahu told reporters: “We did it alone.”

In response to the BBC question about whether the strike had affected the American relations in the region, Rubio said that Washington maintained “strong relations with our Gulf allies.”

The husband presented a widely unified front, even amid the visible tensions, as Rubio praised the technological and cultural relations of the two countries – Netanyahu says that Israel “has no better ally.”

Their meeting comes at a time when Arab leaders hold a summit in an offer to support Qatar. The Qatari Prime Minister urged the international community to stop implementing “double standards” and punishing Israel.

Qatar hosts a major American air base and played a major role in intermediate diplomatic efforts to end the war in Gaza, as it worked as an intermediary of indirect negotiations between Hamas and Israel. The Hamas Political Office has hosted since 2012.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rubio will travel to Qatar after his Israeli trip.

On Sunday, Netanyahu told the correspondents that the relationship between the United States to Israel was “solid like stones in the western wall” while he and Rubio made a short visit to the Holy Location in the Old City of Jerusalem.

During the trip – accompanied by an American ambassador to Israel, Mike Hakapi – Rubio Written and put it in the wall, which is traditional rituals by visitors. Men ignored the questions of journalists who focus on Israel’s strikes in Qatar.

It is also believed that Netanyahu and Rubio are Israeli military plans to seize Gaza City and Israel’s continuous expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank.

During the weekend, the Israeli army entered the front with the demolition of residential buildings in Gaza City, and according to the local media – is now ready to start the ground operations in the western neighborhoods of the city.

The residents of Gaza City have called for leaving and heading south to a central area of ​​the tape. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) estimate that about 250,000 Palestinians have escaped, although hundreds of thousands are believed to be in the area.

Some say they cannot go to the south, while others say southern Gaza is not safe because Israel has carried out air strikes there as well. Some said they tried to go south, but they were unable to put their tents, so he returned to Gaza City.

“They are asking us to leave our homes, as if they were asking us to go on a trip,” said Havez Habus, a resident of Gaza City in Gaza City.

“Here in Gaza we will die for one reason: we have no money. We have no tents, no temporary shelters, and transportation is not available.”

He said: “If you talk to a driver to go south, he asks about 300 shekels.”

“How did it happen? I have no even 100. I don’t have money until tomorrow’s food. How can we move south?”

The United Nations warned to intensify the attack in a region where a Famine has already been announced Civilians will push a “deeper disaster”.

Netanyahu and Rubio will come before the United Nations General Assembly session next week, where some American allies – including the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Australia and Belgium – are expected to know the state of Palestine.

This expected recognition of the discussion within Israel on the future of the West Bank has intensified, with more militant elements insisting that the oppression is the only way to prevent a Palestinian state.

In late August, the Israeli government granted the final approval of the E1 settlement project east of Jerusalem, which will in fact be divided into the West Bank into two – the division of the Palestinian population in the north and south.

Netanyahu said: “Signing an agreement for the project last Thursday:” We will fulfill our promise that there is no Palestinian state. This place belongs to us. “

Earlier this month, the Israeli Finance Minister on the right, Bizalil Smotrich, revealed his proposal to include nearly four fifths of the West Bank.

Israel has built about 160 settlements of 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem – the Palestinians want lands, along with Gaza, for a vibrant future state – during the Middle East war in 1967. It is estimated at 3.3 million Palestinians living alongside them.

Settings are illegal under international law.

On Monday evening, Rubio is scheduled to visit the ancient city of David, which was established by a settler organization in the Palestinian Silwan neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem.

The inauguration of the “Hajj Road” will attend, a tunnel dug under the Palestinian homes that are said to refer to a street in the Roman era that the pilgrims took to the Torah Temple, which was one day standing on the well -known site of the Jews as the Mountain Temple and Muslims such as the Noble Sanctury.

Critics say the city of David Park is an attempt to politicize antiquities, at the expense of the Palestinian population.