[News] Gaza genocide middle ground for Netanyahu, Gallant, Gantz

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Gaza genocide middle ground for Netanyahu, Gallant, Gantz
Al Mayadeen English - October 12, 2023
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The Israeli occupation Prime Minister threatens to wipe out Hamas, while
"Israel" conducts raids on Gaza's civilian infrastructure.
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   - [image: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister
   Benny Gantz pictured in 2020. (AFP via Getty Images)]
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   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Security Minister
   Benny Gantz pictured in 2020. (*AFP *via Getty Images)

In a televised address to Israeli settlers amid Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and
the brutal Israeli aggression on Gaza that has so far killed hundreds of
civilians
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iof-bombing-wipe-out-entire-neighborhoods-in-gaza>
and bombed civilian infrastructure, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu said the Israeli government has put “every other consideration to
the side” for illegal Israeli settlers.

In the address, in which he also announced the formation of an emergency
government
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/netanyahu-forms-war-cabinet-with-rival-benny-gantz-amid-gaza>,
Netanyahu threatened “every Hamas member” with death.

Netanyahu made a political agreement with Gantz, which involved the Prime
Minister agreeing to temporarily suspend his government's judicial overhaul
plan. However, his far-right and ultra-Orthodox Jewish allies will still be
part of the government.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid has not joined this temporary coalition,
although the joint statement mentioned that a place would be "reserved" for
him in the war cabinet.

"Israel before anything else," Gantz wrote in a social media post while the
far-right Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir wrote that he "welcomes the
unity, now we must win".
'Atrocity' allegations debunked

Netanyahu alleged that what Hamas carried out was worse than ISIS, claiming
“evidence” that Hamas members committed war crimes. However, these
allegations have been debunked.

Oren Oziv, a journalist based in "Israel" and part of the group of
journalists who were admitted into a media tour of the "Kfar Azza"
settlement, denied reports of "Hamas beheading children
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/journalist-from-kfar-aza-media-tour-denies-beheading-narrati>
."

"During the tour, we didn’t see any evidence of this, and the army
spokesperson or commanders also didn’t mention any such incidents," Oren
Ziv said in a post on X.

2/5 During the tour, journalists were allowed to speak to the hundreds of
soldiers on site, without the supervision of the army's spokesperson team.
I24 reporter said she heard it “from soldiers”. pic.twitter.com/IgHL8SBy8A
<https://t.co/IgHL8SBy8A>
— Oren Ziv (@OrenZiv_) October 11, 2023
<https://twitter.com/OrenZiv_/status/1712038922484683088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

The story has been retracted by the *LA Times*, and the Israeli army has
officially disowned it.

Similarly, a correspondent of *The Independent*, Bel Trew, disowned the
narrative in a post on X.

"I just wanted to clarify that I did not tweet 40 babies had been beheaded.
I tweeted that foreign media had been told women and children had been
decapitated but we had not been shown bodies - which was my response to
reports which had gone viral about the 40 babies. I realized the way my
tweet was written was too short to explain the full context, so I deleted
it. My headline of my story references that toddlers were killed."

I just wanted to clarify that I did not tweet 40 babies had been beheaded.
I tweeted that foreign media had been told women and children had been
decapitated but we had not been shown bodies - which was my response to
reports which had gone viral about the 40 babies. I realised…
pic.twitter.com/RMYBSJ8BhL <https://t.co/RMYBSJ8BhL>
— Bel Trew (@Beltrew) October 11, 2023
<https://twitter.com/Beltrew/status/1712023042560291083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

Gallant: 'We will wipe out Hamas'

Similarly, Israeli Security Minister Yoav Gallant said in a televised
statement alongside Netanyahu that Hamas would be “obliterated", alleging
that Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was the “worst terror attack the world has
ever seen.”

Gallant, during his televised statement, went on to say that “Hamas, Daesh
of Gaza will be wiped from the face of the earth,” also calling the current
developments one of the toughest hours “Israel” has ever known.

“Our partnership will lead to a clear victory, and will change the reality
as we stand up to every challenge,” he said, further promising Israeli
settlers that “Israel has the strongest army in the region.”

It is noteworthy that “Israel’s” ruthless bombing of the Gaza Strip has
targeted hospitals and civilian infrastructure, killing hundreds of
civilians
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/gaza-death-toll-hits-11k-power-plant-shuts-down>
.

Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a surgeon who recently arrived in the Gaza Strip
from the UK to assist in humanitarian efforts, said he has seen "nothing
like the absolute devastation
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/health/forty-percent-of-injured-at-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-are-chil>"
he has witnessed in the last 72 hours in al-Shifa Hospital, *The
Independent* reported on Wednesday.

"It’s like a tsunami of wounded people," Dr. Abu-Sittah told media from
Gaza's largest medical hospital and complex, Al-Shifa.

"As always with the war in Gaza, the percentage of children is much higher
than in other conflicts because they are being targeted in their homes,"
said Dr. Abu-Sittah, adding that the Gaza population has an average age of
18 and that this youth is evident in their patient demographics, with
children comprising as much as forty percent of the over 650 individuals
treated at the hospital.

"The hospital itself is at capacity... around 30 to 40 percent of the wounded
are children
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