Israel Will Only End War in Gaza With ‘Total Surrender of Hamas’
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Israel insists its campaign against Hamas won’t end before the Palestinian militant organization capitulates and returns all the people it took captive over three months ago, a senior official said, despite mounting international pressure to wind down the offensive.
“We have to have the total surrender of Hamas, we have to have our hostages back,” Nir Barkat, Israel’s economy and industry minister, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Monday. “Hamas has to raise a white flag.”