{"id":47434,"date":"2024-02-08T15:46:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T05:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=47434"},"modified":"2024-02-08T15:46:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T05:46:12","slug":"netanyahus-continuation-of-gaza-war-shows-goal-is-genocide-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=47434","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu&#8217;s continuation of Gaza war shows goal is &#8216;genocide&#8217;: Hamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A senior Lebanon-based official in Palestinian group Hamas said Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s continued pursuit of war in Gaza showed the goal was &#8220;genocide&#8221; against Palestinians.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu&#8217;s &#8220;insistence on continuing the aggression totally confirms that the goal of the aggression on Gaza is genocide against the Palestinian people&#8221;, Osama Hamdan told a news conference in Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will exert every effort to protect our people, whether through the resistance on the ground or&#8230; political efforts to stop the aggression,&#8221; Hamdan added.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu on Wednesday dismissed Hamas&#8217;s demand for a ceasefire and ordered troops to prepare to move on the city of Rafah in Gaza&#8217;s far south, where more than one million Palestinians have sought refuge.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli leader&#8217;s comments appeared to dampen US Secretary of State Antony Blinken&#8217;s hopes for a ceasefire and hostage release deal, even as he cautioned that more negotiations were needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Lebanon-based official in Palestinian group Hamas said Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s continued pursuit of war in Gaza showed the goal was &#8220;genocide&#8221; against Palestinians. Netanyahu&#8217;s &#8220;insistence on continuing the aggression totally confirms that the goal of the aggression on Gaza is genocide against the Palestinian people&#8221;, Osama Hamdan told a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[413],"class_list":["post-47434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-netanyahus-continuation-of-gaza-war-shows-goal-is-genocide-hamas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}