Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday a ceasefire in Israel's war against Hamas 'will not happen', as the UN warned not enough aid was coming in to meet 'unprecedented humanitarian needs'.
A picture taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip on Oct. 30, 2023, shows smoke billowing during Israeli bombardment in the north of the Gaza Strip, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement.JERUSALEM, unidentified — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday a ceasefire in Israel's war against Hamas "will not happen", as the UN warned not enough aid was coming in to meet "unprecedented humanitarian needs".
"Calls for a ceasefire are calls for Israel to surrender to Hamas, to surrender to terrorism... this will not happen," he said, vowing Israel would "fight until this battle is won"."We do not believe that a ceasefire is the right answer right now," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said, adding that "pauses" to get aid into Gaza should be considered instead.
Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA, called for the Security Council to demand an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. Columns of Israeli tanks and armoured bulldozers were seen churning through the sand, and snipers took positions inside emptied residential buildings, in footage released by the army.
Hamas said it had fired anti-tank missiles at two Israeli armoured vehicles and that "blows delivered by the resistance have prevented" Israeli troops from establishing a presence in Gaza. Hamas released a video of what it said were three women hostages, seated against a tile wall, although the time and place of the recording could not be verified.
Internet access was severed on Friday but restored Sunday following US pressure, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said. "We were displaced from our homes to the hospital," Gaza City resident Ashraf al-Muzani, 38, said from Al-Quds hospital where he and his family have sheltered for a week. Israel's military has struck targets in Syria and traded cross-border fire with Hezbollah in Lebanon, where caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati told AFP he was "doing my duty to prevent Lebanon from entering the war".
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