Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected growing demands for a ceasefire in Gaza. He said this is not possible unless the terrorist Palestinian group Hamas returns more than 240 hostages captured during the October 7 attacks.
Netanyahu told workers at Ramon Air Force Base in southern Israel, reiterating the government's long-standing position, that there would be no ceasefire without the return of the hostages. It should be completely removed from the dictionary. We say this to our friends and enemies. We will continue this until we defeat them. we have no choice.
Meeting with US Secretary of State Blinken
The foreign ministers of Qatar, Saudi, Egypt, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Amman, Jordan on Saturday and urged him to persuade Israel to agree to a ceasefire. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, for his part, demanded an immediate ceasefire when he met Blinken during the US secretary of state's unannounced visit to the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
ceasefire rejected
For the second time in less than a month, Blinken has rejected calls for a ceasefire in the region as part of US efforts to stop the Israel-Hamas war from spreading. Blinken has said that the ceasefire would only allow Hamas to regroup. But he is trying to persuade Israel to agree to location-specific pauses that would allow much-needed aid to be distributed within Gaza.
More than 9770 Palestinians were killed in the war
Gaza health officials said on Sunday that more than 9,770 Palestinians have been killed in the current war, which began when Hamas launched a surprise attack on southern Israel on October 7, killing 1,400 and taking more than 240 hostage. taken.
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