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GAZA/JERUSALEM : Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would consider "tactical little pauses" in Gaza fighting to facilitate the entry of aid or the exit of hostages, but again rejected calls for a general ceasefire despite growing international pressure.
Speaking in a U.S. television interview, Netanyahu, whose country has vowed to destroy Gaza's Hamas rulers, said he thought Israel would need security responsibility over the Palestinian enclave for an "indefinite period" after the war.
Speaking in a U.S. television interview, Netanyahu, whose country has vowed to destroy Gaza's Hamas rulers, said he thought Israel would need security responsibility over the Palestinian enclave for an "indefinite period" after the war.
Asked about the potential for humanitarian pauses in fighting, an idea supported by Israel's top ally the United States, Netanyahu said a general ceasefire would hamper his country's war effort.
"As far as tactical little pauses - an hour here, an hour there - we've had them before. I suppose we'll check the circumstances in order to enable goods, humanitarian goods to come in, or our hostages, individual hostages, to leave," Netanyahu told ABC News on Monday.
"But I don't think there's going to be a general ceasefire."
Both Israel and the Hamas militants who control Gaza have rebuffed mounting international pressure for a ceasefire. Israel says hostages taken by Hamas during its rampage in southern Israel on Oct. 7 should be released first. Hamas says it will not free them nor stop fighting while Gaza is under assault.
Since the attack in which Hamas killed 1,400 people in Israel and seized more than 240 hostages, Israel has struck Gaza from the air, imposed a siege and launched a ground assault, stirring global alarm at humanitarian conditions in the enclave.
The health ministry in the Hamas-controlled enclave said at least 10,022 Palestinians have since been killed, including 4,104 children.
International organizations have said hospitals cannot cope with the wounded and food and clean water are running out with aid deliveries nowhere near enough.
"We need an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. It's been 30 days. Enough is enough. This must stop now," said a statement from the heads of several United Nations bodies on Monday, including U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths.
Washington has been pushing hard to arrange pauses in the conflict to allow aid to enter. But it has argued, like Israel, that Hamas would take advantage of a full ceasefire to regroup.
U.S. President Joe Biden discussed such pauses and possible hostage releases in a phone call with Netanyahu on Monday, reiterating his support for Israel while emphasising that it must protect civilians, the White House said.
Source: Reuters
以色列考慮暫停加薩戰鬥以促進援助和人質釋放——總理
加薩/耶路撒冷，11 月7 日（路透社）——總理本雅明·內塔尼亞胡表示，以色列將考慮在加沙的戰鬥中進行“戰術上的小暫停”，以方便援助進入或人質撤離，但儘管國際壓力越來越大，但再次拒絕全面停火的呼籲。
內塔尼亞胡在接受美國電視採訪時表示，他的國家誓言要摧毀加薩的哈馬斯統治者，他認為以色列需要在戰後「無限期」承擔巴勒斯坦飛地的安全責任。
內塔尼亞胡在接受美國電視採訪時表示，他的國家誓言要摧毀加薩的哈馬斯統治者，他認為以色列需要在戰後「無限期」承擔巴勒斯坦飛地的安全責任。
當被問及以色列最高盟友美國支持的人道主義暫停戰鬥的可能性時，內塔尼亞胡表示，全面停火將阻礙以色列的戰爭努力。
「至於戰術上的小停頓——這裡一小時，那裡一小時——我們以前也遇到過。我想我們會檢查情況，以便讓貨物、人道主義物資進入，或者我們的人質、個人人質，離開，」內塔尼亞胡週一告訴美國廣播公司新聞。
“但我認為不會出現全面停火。”
以色列和控制加薩的哈馬斯武裝分子都拒絕了國際社會要求停火的壓力。 以色列表示，哈馬斯 10 月 7 日在以色列南部發動攻擊時劫持的人質應先獲釋。 哈馬斯表示，當加薩受到攻擊時，它不會釋放他們，也不會停止戰鬥。
自從哈馬斯襲擊以色列境內1400人並劫持240名人質以來，以色列從空中襲擊加沙，實施圍困並發動地面攻擊，引起了全球對飛地人道主義狀況的警惕。
哈馬斯控制飛地的衛生部表示，此後至少有 1 萬名巴勒斯坦人被殺，其中包括 4,104 名兒童。
國際組織表示，醫院無法救治傷員，食物和清潔水即將耗盡，援助物資的運送也遠遠不夠。
包括聯合國人權事務高級專員沃爾克·特克、世界衛生組織在內的多個聯合國機構負責人周一發表聲明稱：「我們需要立即實現人道主義停火。已經過去30 天了。受夠了。現在必須停止。」譚德塞和聯合國援助負責人馬丁·格里菲斯。
華盛頓一直在努力推動衝突暫停，以允許援助進入。 但它像以色列一樣辯稱，哈馬斯將利用全面停火重新集結。
白宮表示，美國總統喬·拜登週一在與內塔尼亞胡的電話中討論了此類暫停和可能的人質釋放，重申了他對以色列的支持，同時強調以色列必須保護平民。
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