{"id":2425400,"date":"2025-04-19T17:42:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T21:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netanyahu-says-israel-has-no-choice-but-to-continue-fighting-in-gaza-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T17:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T21:43:10","slug":"netanyahu-says-israel-has-no-choice-but-to-continue-fighting-in-gaza-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netanyahu-says-israel-has-no-choice-but-to-continue-fighting-in-gaza-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu says Israel has \u2018no choice\u2019 but to continue fighting in Gaza &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnetanyahu-says-israel-has-no-choice-but-to-continue-fighting-in-gaza-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2425400&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Israeli Prime Minister benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel has &#8220;no choice&#8221; but to continue military operations in Gaza until Hamas is defeated, hostages are freed, and the territory no longer poses a threat to Israel. Amid growing domestic pressure, including from families of hostages and former military personnel questioning the war&#8217;s continuation after a recent ceasefire was shattered, Netanyahu reiterated his commitment to preventing Iran from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-march-to-appeasement\/\" title=\"The March to Appeasement\">acquiring nuclear weapons<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Over recent days, Israeli airstrikes have intensified, resulting in significant casualties, including at least 90 deaths in just 48 hours, impacting civilians in designated humanitarian zones. The conflict, which has been ongoing since a Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, has led to over 51,000 Palestinian deaths according to Gaza&#8217;s Health Ministry, and much of the region&#8217;s infrastructure and food production has been devastated. <\/p>\n<p>Calls for negotiations to secure the release of hostages have sparked public protests in israel, urging the government to make concessions if necessary. A humanitarian crisis persists in Gaza, with warnings from aid organizations about severe food shortages impacting the population, particularly children.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Netanyahu says Israel has &lsquo;no choice&rsquo; but to continue fighting in Gaza<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2096957\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) &mdash;<\/strong> Israeli Prime Minister <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Benjamin-Netanyahu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> said again Saturday that Israel has &ldquo;no choice&rdquo; but to continue fighting in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gaza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Gaza<\/a>&nbsp;and will not end the war before destroying <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hamas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Hamas<\/a>, freeing the hostages, and ensuring that the territory won&rsquo;t present a threat to <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister also repeated his vow to make sure&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Iran&nbsp;<\/a>never gets a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3385494\/ukraine-says-russian-attacks-continue-despite-easter-truce\/\">Ukraine says Russian attacks on front lines continue despite Putin&#8217;s &#8216;Easter truce&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3385402\/putin-easter-truce-ukraine-russia-pause-military-operations\/\">Putin declares &#8216;Easter truce&#8217; in Ukraine, says Russia will pause all military operations until end of Sunday<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3384837\/canada-election-question-who-can-stand-up-to-trump\/\">Canada&#8217;s preelection question: Who can stand up to Donald Trump?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Netanyahu is under growing pressure at home not only from families of hostages and their supporters but also from&nbsp;reservist and retired Israeli soldiers&nbsp;who question the continuation of the war after&nbsp;Israel shattered a ceasefire&nbsp;last month. In his statement, he claimed that Hamas has rejected Israel&rsquo;s latest proposal to free half the hostages for a continued ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/damage-control-unilevers-inclusive-ceo-struggles-to-renounce-ben-jerrys-anti-semitism\/\" title=\"Damage Control: Unilever\u2019s \u2018Inclusive\u2019 CEO Struggles To Renounce Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s Anti-Semitism\">prime minister spoke<\/a> after Israeli strikes killed more than 90 people in 48 hours, Gaza&rsquo;s Health Ministry said Saturday. Israeli troops have been increasing their attacks to pressure Hamas to release the hostages and disarm.<\/p>\n<p>Children and women were among the 15 people killed overnight, according to hospital staff. At least 11 dead were in the southern city of Khan Younis, several of them in a tent in the Muwasi area where hundreds of thousands of displaced people stay, hospital workers said. Israel has designated it as a humanitarian zone.<\/p>\n<p>Mourners cradled and kissed the faces of the dead. A man stroked a child&rsquo;s forehead with his finger before body bags were closed.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Omar is gone &hellip; I wish it was me,&rdquo; one brother cried out.<\/p>\n<p>Four other people were killed in strikes in Rafah city, including a mother and her daughter, according to the European Hospital, where the bodies were taken.<\/p>\n<p>Later on Saturday, an Israeli airstrike on a group of civilians west of Nuseirat in central Gaza killed one person, according to Al-Awda Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&rsquo;s military in a statement said it killed more than 40 terrorists over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the military said a soldier was killed Saturday in northern Gaza and confirmed it was the first soldier death since Israel resumed the war on March 18. Hamas&rsquo;s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said it ambushed Israeli forces operating east of Gaza City&rsquo;s al-Tuffah neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has vowed to intensify attacks across Gaza and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">occupy indefinitely large &#038;ldquo<\/a>;security zones&rdquo;&nbsp;inside the small coastal strip of over 2 million people. Hamas wants Israeli forces to withdraw from the territory.<\/p>\n<p>Israel also has blockaded Gaza for the past six weeks, again barring the entry of food and other goods.<\/p>\n<p>This week, aid groups&nbsp;raised the alarm, saying thousands of children have become malnourished and most people are barely eating one meal a day as stocks dwindle, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the World Health Organization&rsquo;s eastern Mediterranean office, Dr. Hanan Balkhy, on Friday urged the new U.S. ambassador in Israel,&nbsp;Mike Huckabee, to push the country to lift Gaza&rsquo;s blockade so medicines and other aid can enter.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I would wish for him to go in and see the situation firsthand,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The war began when Hamas-led terrorists attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251. Most of the hostages have been released in ceasefire agreements or other deals. Hamas currently holds 59 hostages, 24 of them believed to be alive.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&rsquo;s offensive has since killed over 51,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to&nbsp;Gaza&rsquo;s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.<\/p>\n<p>The war has destroyed vast parts of Gaza and most of its food production capabilities. Around 90% of the population is displaced, with hundreds of thousands of people living in tent camps and bombed-out buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Frustration has been growing on both sides, with&nbsp;rare public protests against Hamas in Gaza&nbsp;and continued weekly rallies in Israel pressing the government to reach a deal to bring all hostages home.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Israelis joined protests Saturday night pressing for a deal.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Do what you should have done a long time ago. Bring them all back now! And in one deal. And if this means to stop the war, then stop the war,&rdquo; former hostage Omer Shem Tov told a rally in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2096957\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2096957\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netanyahu insists Israel must keep fighting in Gaza until Hamas is defeated and hostages are freed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2425401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/netanyahu-continue-fighting-gaza.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20083,4671,6524],"class_list":["post-2425400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-gaza","tag-israel","tag-netanyahu"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/netanyahu-continue-fighting-gaza.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425404,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425400\/revisions\/2425404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2425401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}