Israel-Hamas war: Amid the unprecedented war between Israel and Hamas, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and British PM Rishi Sunak on Thursday held multiple meetings in Jerusalem and subsequently held a joint press briefing where the latter lamented the current situation on both sides and said Britain will always there to assist Tel Aviv.
"I am sorry to be here in such terrible circumstances. In the last two weeks, this country has gone through something that no country, no people should have to endure, least of all Israel," said Sunak.
"I want to share the deep condolences of the British people and stress that we absolutely support Israel's right to defend itself in line with international law, to go after Hamas...We also recognise that the Palestinian people are victims of Hamas too. I welcome your decision yesterday that you took to ensure that routes into Gaza will be opened for humanitarian aid to enter. I am glad that you made that decision. We will support it...We also want you to win," he added.
Hamas are the new Nazis: Netanyahu
“Hamas are the new Nazis, they’re the new ISIS,” Netanyahu says in his public statements alongside his British counterpart Rishi Sunak in Jerusalem, “and we have to fight them together just as the world, the civilized world united to fight the Nazis and united to fight Hamas [sic], it must now stand with Israel as we fight and defeat Hamas," Times of Israel reported.
He argues that there is an “axis of evil” of Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, who want to bring the Middle East back “to an age of bondage and war and slavery and annihilation.” He insists that one of the reasons Hamas attacked Israel was to stop the spread of the forces of modernity and peace, which were on the cusp of expanding.
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