Israel won’t stop until Hamas is destroyed, Netanyahu tells Putin in first phone call since war began
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday evening, for the first time since the war with Hamas began.
Netanyahu told Putin Israel went to war determined and united, and would not stop until it had destroyed Hamas military and governing capabilities.
Putin on Monday expressed his “serious concern about the likelihood of the conflict escalating into a regional war,” in conversations with Netanyahu, as well as in calls to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, the Kremlin reported.
The Russian president on Friday cautioned that the siege of Gaza may come to resemble the German siege of Leningrad in World War 2, saying that Israel had been subjected to “an attack unprecedented in its cruelty” by Hamas and had the right to defend itself but was employing cruel methods in its response.
“The civilian casualties will be absolutely unacceptable. Now the main thing is to stop the bloodshed,” Putin said.
The All Israel News Staff is a team of journalists in Israel.
