“We would like to free the hostages, and this will only happen under military pressure in Gaza, Khan Yunis and all other places where Hamas is present,” TASS reports his words.
Katz added that Israel will not agree to end the war until Hamas is “defeated both militarily and politically.”
Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out the withdrawal of troops from the Gaza Strip until complete victory and the release of “thousands” of Palestinians from prisons.
The head of the intensive care unit at the Gaslini hospital, Andrea Moscatelli, said that operations on children in the Gaza Strip are carried out without anesthesia.
On January 29, it became known that the death toll as a result of Israeli military strikes on the Gaza Strip had increased to 26,637.