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The Israeli prime minister made the comments on Sunday as Hamas awaits Israel’s response to the latest proposal
In a statement Israel’s military has claimed to have again struck at what it called “a Hezbollah military site” inside Lebanon. It also claims to have struck “a Hezbollah weapons storage facility” and several other locations to the north of Israel.
The statement continued “IDF artillery fired to remove a threat in a number of areas in southern Lebanon. The IDF will continue to operate against the threat of the Hezbollah terrorist organization in order to defend the state of Israel.”
The plan that has been agreed to by Israel and which has been welcomed by President Biden will allow Israel to return hostages without infringing on the other objectives of the war.
The Israeli government has been accused of attempting to sabotage a US-backed ceasefire proposal, according to Israeli media, by introducing new demands despite previously accepting the plan. Two Hamas officials told Reuters they were now waiting for a response from Israel. However, David Barnea, the chief of the Mossad foreign intelligence service, who was dispatched over the weekend to Qatar, where talks are being held, was reported to have provided the mediators with a list of new reservations, according to Israeli media.
Protests aimed at pressuring the Israeli government to reach a hostage deal with Hamas began across Israel on Sunday, with demonstrators blocking roads and picketing at the homes of government ministers. The demonstrators took to the streets, blocking rush hour traffic at major intersections across the country. They briefly set fire to tires on the main Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway before police cleared the way.
In Gaza, Palestinian health officials said at least 15 people were killed in separate Israeli military strikes on Sunday. An Israeli airstrike on a house in the town of Zawayda, in central Gaza, killed at least six people and wounded several others, while six others were killed in an airstrike on a house in western Gaza, the health officials said.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement fired another 20 rockets at northern Israel, leaving one person injured there, the latest cross-border attacks launched in solidarity with Gaza’s Palestinian militant group Hamas. Hezbollah said that “in response to the attack and assassination that the Israeli enemy carried out”, it had targeted “one of the main bases” in northern Israel, west of Tiberias, with “dozens of Katyusha rockets”.
At least 38,153 Palestinians have been killed and 87,828 injured in Israel’s military offensive on Gaza since 7 October, Gaza’s health ministry said on Sunday.
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