Egypt Daily News – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel agreed to a ceasefire with Lebanon to achieve 3 main goals.
Netanyahu explained in a press briefing after announcing the cabinet’s approval to stop firing, that this approval was issued to achieve three main goals, which are:
-Focus on the Iranian threat.
-Reactivating the Israeli forces and unifying their ranks.
-Separating the Gaza front from the Lebanon front and isolating the Hamas movement.
-Netanyahu stressed that the ceasefire and its duration “depends on what happens in Lebanon,” adding that the Israeli army will carry out attacks if any violation of the agreement is recorded.
He continued, “We reserve complete freedom to respond. If Hezbollah arms itself, we will attack, and if it builds infrastructure near the border, we will attack as well.”
He added: “After a year of war, the same Hezbollah is no longer as strong as it was a year ago. We took it back decades, assassinated the party’s former Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah, eliminated the organization’s senior leaders, and destroyed most of its missiles and missiles.”
“I hear claims that if we enter into a ceasefire, we will not be able to attack or resume the war. I remind you that this is what was said when we announced the ceasefire in Gaza to free the hostages. They said that we would not resume the fighting, but we resumed it with great force.”
He stressed that Israel will continue to eliminate Hamas and recover all hostages, to ensure that Gaza does not pose another threat to Israel, and that it will work to return the residents of the north to their homes safely, stressing that the war will not end until Israel achieves all its goals.
According to him, Israel achieved great achievements on 7 battle fronts during a year of war, which he explained as follows:
Iran’s “head of the octopus” front.
According to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel has destroyed large parts of Iran’s air defenses and its ability to produce missiles, in addition to destroying a major component of its nuclear program, stressing its determination to prevent Tehran from possessing a nuclear weapon.
Gaza front.
Netanyahu considered that the Israeli army succeeded in dismantling the Hamas brigades and eliminating 20,000 of its members.
He added, “We returned 154 hostages, and we are committed to returning all the remaining 101 hostages, whether alive or dead, and ending the suffering of their families. We are also committed to completing the elimination of Hamas.”
The remaining fronts are the Western Front, Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.
Netanyahu pointed out that the Israeli army is continuing its operations on these fronts, saying: “We are systematically thwarting attempts by Iran, Hezbollah, and the Syrian army to transfer weapons to Lebanon, and Assad must realize that he is playing with fire.”
