Liberman calls to retake Gaza, denounces truce efforts
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman criticized Israeli ministers on Tuesday for accepting an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire with Hamas, and called on Israel to recapture Gaza, asserting that a truce would merely allow the Gaza-based terror group to replenish its stock and build more rockets.
“A ceasefire is mere preparation for the next round of violence,” Liberman said during a press conference in the Knesset, even as the Egyptian ceasefire proposal sputtered out, with dozens of rocket attacks on Israel and retaliatory airstrikes in Gaza.
“Given Hamas’s blatant rejection [of the Egyptian proposal], we must make a clear decision. All this hesitation works against us. We must go all the way. There is no alternative,” he said.
The foreign minister, who also leads the Yisrael Beytenu party, argued that a full-scale military invasion of the Strip was necessary in order to topple the Hamas government. “An end result to the operation would see the IDF control Gaza,” he said.
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