In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the possibility of moving to stage two in the Gaza peace plan, stating the main condition for this development as the disarmament of Hamas. According to Netanyahu, there are currently about 20,000 armed Hamas operatives in the Strip with Kalashnikov weapons, who, combined, possess roughly 60,000 weapons and use them against Gaza civilians who oppose their continued rule.
“They kill a lot of people who don’t want them,” he said in the interview. “Disarmament means taking away all their weapons and disposing of them, as well as dismantling the hundreds of kilometers of terror tunnels they have. Hamas refuses to do this. If they do disarm—I see a different future for Gaza.”
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