2023-10-23 12:47:38
The spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Jonathan Conricus, revealed this Monday in an interview with the Australian radio station ABC Radio Melbourne the conditions of the Hebrew country to renounce the ground offensive it plans to carry out in the Gaza Strip. Gaza against the Islamist movement Hamas.
The war “would end” if Hamas “came out of its hiding places, beneath those it hides Israeli civilians”, returned the “212 hostages” it is holding captive and “surrendered unconditionally”, the military spokesman said. In the event that they don’t do it, he warned: “we will probably have to enter (the Gaza Strip) and get it.”
Regarding the Israeli attacks against the Gaza Strip, which cost the lives of more than 4,000 civilians according to the Ministry of Health of the besieged enclave, Conricus reiterated that the Hebrew authorities had warned to evacuate the north of the territory and assured that the Army tries “apply the distinction between combatants and non-combatants” and “give advance warning of attacks” even if they involve Hamas military facilities.
“Good people have to take sides”
Likewise, he referred to the statements of the mayor of the Australian city of Sydney, Clover Moore, who blocked the proposal to raise the Israeli flag in front of the City Hall building and illuminate it with blue and white, saying that she does not agree ” with that of taking sides for one side or the other”. Conricus maintained that one “must take sides (…) according to his own morals.”
“If you support an organization that sent 1,000 or more armed men into a sovereign country to execute, burn alive, rape, massacre, mutilate and behead more than 1,000 civilians, if you decide you want to take a stand and support this, (…) “That is your morality and that is how you will go down in history,” he asserted, reiterating that “good people have to take sides.”
“And here it is very clear. We are not the aggressors (…) we are defending ourselves, so, if you cannot take a position regarding this, I think something is very wrong with your morals,” he said.
Source: RT News
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