Benjamin Netanyahu warns Hamas will attack AMERICA if the terror group isn’t decimated by the IDF

Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that America and the West ‘will be next’ if Hamas is not eradicated.

The Israeli Prime Minister told Fox News On Monday, he said it was essential in the interests of the “civilized world” that the IDF root out the terrorists responsible for the October 7 massacre.

Netanyahu said: ‘If we don’t win now, Europe will be next and you will be next. And we have to win.’

‘We must win to protect Israel. We must win to protect the Middle East. We must win for the sake of the civilized world.

‘That is the battle we are fighting, and it is being fought right now. There is no substitute for that victory.”

Addressing the Americans again, he emphasized “our fight is your fight” before labeling the war as the front line against “barbarism” that could “endanger the entire world.”

“Every American, every civilized country will be in danger. We have to win. There is no substitute for victory. Total victory, he added.

Netanyahu invoked the “Axis of Terror” led by Iran – which also includes Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen – saying: “They want to return the Middle East, the world, to the Dark Ages .’

He continued: “And on the other side are Israel, the modern Arab states, of course the United States, all the forces that want to see peace and prosperity for the Middle East and for the world. And that is the battle that is being waged now.’

But the Israeli prime minister also said they are fighting “in the interests of the people of Gaza who are in the hands of this dark tyranny that has been cruel and brought them nothing but bloodshed, poverty and misery.”

As Israeli forces cross Gaza, they claim to have found a Hamas base beneath a hospital ‘where hostages were being held’, with images of the area released on November 13.

As the world mourns the loss of innocent lives in Gaza, Netanyahu has stressed that there will be no ceasefire until all Israeli hostages are returned.

The deadly Hamas attack on October 7 captured around 240 people and killed at least 1,200 Israeli civilians. In response, Israel has launched a siege of Gaza to eliminate the terror group for good.

A member of the Israeli security forces stands near burning cars after a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, southern Israel, on October 7

The Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip on November 11

Abu Ubaida, Hamas’ spokesman, said in an audio recording on the group’s Telegram channel that they were willing to release up to 70 women and children held in Gaza in exchange for a five-day ceasefire with Israel.

“Last week there was an attempt by the Qatari brothers to free the enemy prisoners of women and children in exchange for the release of 200 Palestinian children and 75 women held by the enemy.”

“The ceasefire must include a complete ceasefire and allow aid and humanitarian assistance throughout the Gaza Strip,” he said.

He accused Israel of “delaying and avoiding” the price of the deal.

Discussing the war at a news conference in Tel Aviv on Saturday, Netanyahu said Israel “will not stop until we complete our mission” and that the only goal is to win.

He said Hamas has “lost its grip on Gaza” and that there is now “no place to hide.”

Netanyahu said he remains in daily contact with US President Joe Biden, and also has the “political and ethical support” of the US government.

The armed wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas told Qatari mediators on Monday that the group was willing to release up to 70 women and children held in Gaza in exchange for a five-day ceasefire with Israel.

Abu Ubaida, the spokesman for Hamas’s armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, said in an audio recording on the group’s Telegram channel that they have offered a deal

Several world leaders have come to visit Israel to show their support, but there are “minorities putting pressure on the governments,” he said.

He urged the government “not to give in to this pressure” and said “our war is their war.”

“No international pressure, no false accusations… will deviate us from our cause,” he said.

He rejected calls for a ceasefire, saying: “If you want peace, we must eliminate Hamas.”

With Israeli forces currently fighting in the center of Gaza City, the territory’s main city, both sides have seized on the fate of the hospitals as a symbol of the larger war, now in its sixth week.

Israel accuses Hamas of using hospitals as fronts for its fighters, claiming that Hamas set up its main command center in and beneath Gaza’s largest hospital, Shifa, without providing visual evidence. Both Hamas and Shifa hospital staff deny the Israeli accusations.

On Monday, the military released images of a children’s hospital its forces entered over the weekend, showing weapons it said it found inside, as well as basement rooms where the militants are believed to have held some of the roughly 240 hostages they have kidnapped. during the first attack.

Meanwhile, gunfire and explosions raged Monday around Shifa, which has been surrounded by Israeli forces for days. Tens of thousands of people have fled the hospital in recent days for the southern Gaza Strip, including large numbers of displaced people who had sought shelter there, as well as patients who were able to move.

People mourn as they collect the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli raids on November 14

US President Joe Biden said on Monday that Shifa “must be protected.”

“It is my hope and expectation that there will be less intrusive action,” Biden said in the Oval Office.

Early Tuesday, the Israeli military said in a statement that it had begun an effort to transfer incubators from Israel to Shifa. It was not clear whether the incubators have been delivered and how they will be powered.

The US has pushed for temporary pauses to allow for wider distribution of much-needed aid. Israel has only agreed to daily windows during which civilians can flee northern Gaza on foot along two main roads. UN observers said around 200,000 people have moved south along the two routes since November 5. Israel has described the corridors to the south as safe, but at the same time continues to attack militant targets throughout its territory, often killing women. and children.

Israel’s goal of separating civilians from Hamas militants has come at a high cost, with more than two-thirds of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents having fled their homes.