Video Infoblog: srael says it won't carry out a major ground offensive 'without evacuating civilians' • FRANCE 24
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Israel has said that it won't carry out0:02
a major ground offensive until it has0:04
managed to evacuate civilians from Rafa0:07
something which AG agencies have told us0:09
they believe is impossible that they0:11
simply don't have the means to deliver0:13
Aid to them um and that would mean0:15
displacing people uh who've already been0:17
displaced several times again and they0:19
said nowhere is safe to go but what you0:21
heard there with Benjamin Netanyahu um0:24
speaking out very strident saying that0:26
even if there was a ceasefire deal0:29
Israeli Tri would uh enter Rafa0:32
eventually um because he said several0:35
times that a total Victory against Hamas0:38
is the aims at the aim of his War one of0:41
them is also getting the hostages home0:44
um so he's kind of repeating these these0:47
uh remarks once again in very strident0:49
fashion not giving in to the mounting0:51
pressure from the International0:52
Community to to pull back from uh this0:55
talk of an invasion of Rafa or an0:58
offensive on Rafa and I think it's1:00
interesting there that this was a press1:02
conference in Hebrew in front of Israeli1:05
journalists and he's also playing to the1:07
home crowd this was Netanyahu speaking1:10
out to the Israeli people saying that um1:13
we are going to act you've got to have1:15
trust in us and you've got to have Unity1:17
he spoke about that several times in the1:19
press conference and there's been1:20
mounting criticism of him um so he was1:23
kind of in some would say perhaps1:25
campaigning mode and there is a sense1:27
here in Israel that after this war ends1:29
he will have huge questions to answer if1:31
not he will have to resign and so he's1:34
there trying to Rally the Israeli people1:36
around this cause and insisting that he1:39
still is taking a hard line here in Gaza