Netanyahu Vows to ‘Destroy Hamas in Gaza’ as Terrorist Group Rejects Latest Ceasefire Offer
“I will not surrender to murderers.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Saturday evening, vowed to “destroy Hamas” after the Gaza-based terrorist group rejected the latest Israeli ceasefire offer.
The military operation launched in response to the October 7 massacre would not end until “we destroy Hamas in Gaza” and all remaining hostages are brought home, Prime Minister Netanyahu declared. “We will not end the ‘war of revival’ before we destroy Hamas in Gaza, return all our hostages and ensure that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel,” he said in a 12-minute address aired Saturday.
The Israeli prime minister vowed to stay the course as the ground operation in Gaza was at a ‘critical’ juncture. “We are at a critical stage of the campaign, and at this point, we need patience and determination to win,” he said while addressing the nation in Hebrew.
Submitting to Hamas’ dictates would only embolden Israel’s enemies. “Ending the war under these surrender conditions would send a message to all of Israel’s enemies: that abducting Israelis can bring Israel to its knees. It would prove that terrorism pays — and that message would endanger the entire free world,” Netanyahu added.
The prime minister noted that the Islamic terrorist group had rejected yet another ceasefire deal, refusing to negotiate the release of 59 remaining hostages, of whom only 24 are believed to be alive after more than 18 months of Hamas captivity. “Netanyahu confirmed that Hamas rejected Israel’s latest proposal in the hostage talks, which he said could have resulted in the release of half of the hostages and the return of the bodies of several others,” the Israeli news website YNET reported Saturday.
Statement by Prime Minister Netanyahu >>
"At the beginning of my remarks, I would like to send – for my wife and I, and for all of us – heartfelt condolences to the family of Warrant Officer G'haleb Nasser, of blessed memory, who fell in the Gaza Strip.https://t.co/zXUhfL4Jov pic.twitter.com/D9nPVPtKaT
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) April 20, 2025
The Jerusalem Post reported Israeli PM’s address:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the citizens of Israel in a pre-recorded message on Saturday shortly after Shabbat ended. (…)
“I will not surrender to murderers. Such a surrender would endanger you, the public. If we yield to their demands, all the tremendous achievements we have gained will be lost,” Netanyahu said.
“Hamas has once again rejected a proposal to release half of the living hostages and many fallen soldiers. Hamas rejected the proposal and demanded an end to the war. If we accept Hamas’s demands, it would mean that Israel can be forced to surrender,” he continued.
The prime minister reiterated that such capitulation would “endanger the country and endanger you.” (…)
He said that while Hamas is vicious and cruel, they are not stupid and will not agree to such a scenario. In addition, the international community would not allow it, and those advocating for such a tactic do not understand how international relations work.
“If we capitulate to the dictates of Hamas now, all the great achievements of the war, which we achieved with the merit of our soldiers and our fallen and our heroic injured, all these achievements will disappear. As your prime minister, I will not surrender to murderers who committed the worst massacre against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Surrender like this will endanger the country and endanger you.”
IDF ground troops sweep Rafah terror stronghold
With Hamas refusing to free the remaining hostages, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out an intense military operation in terrorist-infested Gaza. “Over the weekend, IDF troops continued operations in the Gaza Strip to dismantle Hamas terrorist infrastructure both above and below ground,” the IDF said in a statement Saturday evening.
Israeli ground troops were destroying Hamas’s vast underground terrorist infrastructure located in the southern Gaza stronghold of Rafah. “Givati Brigade troops, in cooperation with Yahalom Unit soldiers and under the command of the 143rd Division, dismantled a booby-trapped underground tunnel route stretching hundreds of meters in the Shabura area in Rafah,” the IDF said. “Additionally, numerous weapons were located and dismantled in the area, along with a tunnel shaft containing a cache of explosives.”
Over the weekend, Israeli fighter jets hit Hamas targets across Gaza. “The IAF continues to strike terrorists and terror infrastructure while supporting the troops in the field,” the military statement revealed. “This week, approximately 300 terror targets were struck across the Gaza Strip, around 150 of them over the weekend.”
The airstrike was targeted at “weapons storage facilities, launch sites intended for attacks on Israeli territory, and terrorists who posed a threat to the troops,” the IDF added.
Over the weekend, the military says the Israeli Air Force carried out airstrikes on over 150 targets in the Gaza Strip, including cells of terror operatives and Hamas infrastructure.
Since March 18, when Israel resumed its offensive against Hamas, the IDF says it has struck… pic.twitter.com/j8Sx4e6K9Z
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) April 19, 2025
The IDF Eliminates deputy chief of Hezbollah’s terrorist Unit 4400
An Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon eliminated Hussein Ali Nasr, deputy chief of Hezbollah’s terrorist Unit 4400. The Syria-based Unit 4400 specializes in smuggling weapons from Iran.
🔴ELIMINATED: Deputy Head of Hezbollah’s Weapons Smuggling Unit 4400
The IAF conducted an intelligence-based strike on terrorist Hussein Ali Nasr, deputy head of Hezbollah’s Unit 4400.
During his role, Nasr operated to smuggle weapons and funds into Lebanon in order to rebuild… pic.twitter.com/y55KqXHex0
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 20, 2025
“Earlier today (the Israeli Air Force) conducted an intelligence-based strike on the terrorist Hussein Ali Nasr, who served as deputy head of Hezbollah’s Unit 4400,” the IDF revealed in a press release Sunday.
The slain terror commander was involved in an Iranian weapons smuggling operation aimed at rebuilding Hezbollah’s decimated terrorist infrastructure in Lebanon.
According to the IDF, “Nasr operated to smuggle weapons and funds into the State of Lebanon in order to rebuild the Hezbollah terrorist organizations’ military capabilities. As part of this effort, he collaborated with Iranian operatives to facilitate the transfer of weapons and funds into Lebanon, including through the Beirut International Airport.”
BREAKING! 💥💥
An Israeli drone strike ELIMINATED Hezbollah commander Hussein Ali Nasr in southern Lebanon.
He was the deputy chief of Unit 4400, responsible for smuggling weapons and funds into Lebanon, often via Beirut airport and the Syria-Lebanon border.
The strike is… pic.twitter.com/q8KJSq44BK
— Hillel Fuld (@HilzFuld) April 20, 2025
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Islam generally and Hamas specifically are nothing short of evil incarnate.
Hamas cannot be negotiated with nor would they ever repent from their stated goal of k1ll1ng as many Jews as possible and destroying Israel.
That was the entire point of October 7th and if Israel does not destroy Hamas down to the last man that’s what will happen again.
Bibi has my complete support.
Hamas must be eradicated, but that is not enough, as long as 8o% of pales have and condition their children to become terrorists, the problem will persist. What will be doe to address this 80% of Pale problem?
Hamas delenda est.
Mine also, but for God’s sake he just needs to stop talking and do it already. Time enough for talk later, but just get it done before anything else happens.
the IDF released a report that they estimate they have destroyed 25% of the Hamas terror tunnels.
That leaves a lot of tunnels still usable
I don’t want Islam to be vanquished any more than I’d like to see the adherents be eliminated.
I want to see the world isolate and ignore subhuman savages and leave them to the 12th century.
Easy to say, Jay. You do not live next door to that bunch. The Israelis have every right to clean up their neighborhood. Think of it as the neighborhood, after growing tired of calling the landlord, the police and the housing department and getting no help, taking the step of burning the dope-house to the ground. Those of “officialdom” had their chance and opted out.
Unfortunately, the “subhuman savages” have been admitted, in volume, to the vast majority of Western countries. They indeed effectively control many of them already (the UK, Sweden, Germany, France). Isolating them is an idle fantasy. They must be suppressed and the activists totally rooted out, without rancor but without pity.
All the savages, not just Hamas.
man..thats anti american!!
“I will NOT surrender to murderers”
no wonder the dnc hates him
Netanyahu’s problem is that, if he kills every one of Hamas fighters today, demographics means that there possibly will be 50,ooo more in a year, and each year thereafter. How can he deal with that other than resettlement of every last Gazan elsewhere?
Killing Islamofascists/Muslim terrorists does have a deterrent effect, though. You cannot roll over and submit to the genocidal predations of these reprobates, just because they breed like rabbits.
Of course Hamas won’t surrender more hostages. The hostage families pressure the government to hold back and negotiate. Hamas doesn’t want to give up this leverage.
What is to be done? No good solutions. The Arabs cannot remain in Gaza. They will attack again once they recover. Either move them all out, or exterminate. Sure the world will fuss, but what can they do about it if America continues support? Europe already hates Israel. Europe hates Jews. Much of Europe has already surrendered to Islam. My solution: Europe needs to have skin in the game. The Europeans won’t fuss if the Arabs exterminate Israel. They might even welcome it. But if Europe goes down with Israel, that’s a different story. Yes I talking about the Sampson option. Very doable. I’m sure Israel knows how.
From Wikipedia on the date 1066.
“The 1066 Granada massacre took place on 30 December 1066 (9 Tevet 4827; 10 Safar 459 AH) when a Muslim mob stormed the royal palace in Granada, in the Taifa of Granada,[1] killed and crucified[2] the Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela, and massacred much of the Jewish population of the city.”
Thus European hatred of Jews is an old story. It’s time they were taught a bitter lesson.
It’s very unfortunate: Gaza in 2006 had an opportunity to reject terrorism and become a pearl on the Mediterranean. It had most everything it needed, and the West would have paid for the rest. Instead the Gazans embraced terrorism. Today Gazan mothers teach their children to be terrorists.
So today, the only solution is to move the Gazans to somewhere else. Here again, Mr. Trump is ahead of most of the rest of us. The major question is, of course, where? There’s no spot on earth that we could settle the Gazans that would not object to their presence. But that is what needs to happen.
Send them to China. The factories need workers.
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This will never end. There are 1.5B muslims most of which hate Jews in general and Isreal specifically. This is what they are taught and what they believe. This is not going to change. Even in a country like Egypt which has “peace” with Israel while the government might do business with Israel the populace hates us.
Even if you ignore the muslims for the moment consider this. Europe hate Jews. Slavs especially the russians hate Jews. Blacks hate Jews. Chinese are currently being taught to hate Jews. Progressives hate Jews. At least a third of Jews hate Jews. It never ends.
“Ending the war under these surrender conditions would send a message to all of Israel’s enemies: that abducting Israelis can bring Israel to its knees. It would prove that terrorism pays — and that message would endanger the entire free world,”
Sadly, that’s the message Israel’s leaders have been sending its enemies for decades. The message has been received and acted upon. I suspect those enemies are having trouble believing that anything has changed.
Ok, then what? Assume you can terminate 100% of Hamas’ fighters.
Then, leave and let the remaining population- virtually all Hamas supporters- form a new government that is exactly like Hamas but with a new name?
Israel has Sovereignty over Gaza. The only solution for an enduring peace is to govern it directly like any other city or province in the country.
Beat Hamas, but stay and take full control. Anyone that refuses to acknowledge Israeli government and swear loyalty to it gets deported to Egypt or Jordan or anywhere wlse that will take them.
And most importantly: allow any Israeli citizens to move to Gaza, just as they can to anyplace else in Israel.
There’s no pont in any of tgis if they’re just going to give Gaza back to arab muslim semi-autonomous self rule.