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Netanyahu urges Gazans to take future into their own handspublished at 18:39 British Summer Time<\/p>\nNetanyahu urges Gazans to take future into their own handspublished at 18:39 British Summer Time<\/p>\n
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Paul Adams
Diplomatic correspondent, reporting from Jerusalem<\/p>\n
Speaking to an audience at the US embassy in Jerusalem tonight, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel had accepted the proposals relayed to Israel and Hamas over the weekend.<\/p>\n
And he urged the people of Gaza to follow suit.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf President Trump\u2019s proposal is accepted,\u201d Mr Netanyahu told his audience, \u201cthe war can end immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n
The latest US proposals would see a ceasefire, the immediate release of all Israeli hostages and the start of negotiations on an end to the conflict.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s actions, Mr Netanyahu said, could \u201copen the door\u201d to a conclusion of the conflict<\/p>\n
The prime minister urged the people of Gaza not to be \u201cderailed\u201d by Hamas, whose leaders lived in sumptuous villas and did not care about Gaza\u2019s civilians.<\/p>\n
\u201cStand up for your rights and for your future,\u201d he said. \u201cMake peace with us. Accept President Trump’s proposal. Don’t worry, you can do it, and we can promise you a different future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Having attempted to decapitate Hamas (we still don\u2019t know the results of the operation in Doha), Mr Netanyahu is telling Gazans to take matters into their own hands.<\/p>\n
He made a similar appeal to the people of Iran during Israel\u2019s twelve-day assault on the regime and its nuclear programme earlier this year.<\/p>\n
But the exhausted population of Gaza, who have seen tens of thousands of their people killed and entire cities bombed to rubble, are unlikely to respond favourably, even if they could.<\/p>\n
Hamas maintains a military presence in the Gaza Strip, powerful enough to intimidate the local population and mount occasional guerilla attacks on Israeli soldiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netanyahu urges Gazans to take future into their own handspublished at 18:39 British Summer Time 18:39 BST Paul…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-125881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}