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Netanyahu: No Gaza Rebuild before Hamas Disarms, Israel Will Keep Security Control over Gaza
(Prime Minister's Office) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday: "Absolute victory rests on three things: The return of all our hostages, the dismantling of Hamas's weapons, and the demilitarization of Gaza. Only in this way will we ensure that Gaza no longer poses a threat to the State of Israel. Yesterday, we fully completed the sacred mission of returning all of our hostages." "Now we are focusing on completing the two remaining missions: The disarming of Hamas and the demilitarization of Gaza from weapons and tunnels....It will be done either the easy way or the hard way. But in any case, it will happen!" "I hear even now the statements that we will allow the reconstruction of Gaza before demilitarization. That will not happen. I hear that we will bring Turkish soldiers and Qatari soldiers into Gaza. That will also not happen. I hear that I will allow the establishment of a Palestinian state in Gaza. That has not happened, and it will not happen." "Israel will maintain security control over the entire area from the Jordan [River] to the [Mediterranean] sea, and that is also true regarding Gaza." "Yesterday I participated in the Second International Conference on Combatting Antisemitism...against the backdrop of the wave of violent antisemitism sweeping many countries. I said there: We have the opportunity to see the enormous turnaround we have brought about in the life of our people." "What they said about the Jews, they say today about the State of the Jews....But today we have a state, we have an army, we have wonderful young men and women. When they attack us, we fight back. Do they slander us? Yes. But when they come to slaughter us, we fight back fiercely, and we win."