{"id":2107,"date":"2025-10-15T06:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.bdexpress.news\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:52:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:52:30","slug":"israel-threatens-to-resume-gaza-genocide-after-hostage-return-says-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/israel-threatens-to-resume-gaza-genocide-after-hostage-return-says-defence-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel threatens to resume Gaza genocide after hostage return, says defence minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In open defiance of the newly agreed ceasefire agreement, Israel\u2019s Defence Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Israel_katz\">Israel Katz<\/a> has declared that the occupation army will resume its military onslaught on Gaza once the remaining hostages are returned.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post on X, Katz said that once the first phase of the deal is ended with the release of all hostages, Isarel will resume its operation to destroy Hamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIsrael\u2019s great challenge after the phase of returning the hostages will be the destruction of all of Hamas\u2019s terror tunnels in Gaza, directly by the IDF and through the international mechanism to be established under the leadership and supervision of the United States\u201d said Katz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the primary significance of implementing the agreed-upon principle of demilitarizing Gaza and neutralizing Hamas of its weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have instructed the IDF to prepare for carrying out the mission.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"iw\" dir=\"rtl\">\u05d4\u05d0\u05ea\u05d2\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d2\u05d3\u05d5\u05dc \u05e9\u05dc \u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc \u05dc\u05d0\u05d7\u05e8 \u05e9\u05dc\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d7\u05d6\u05e8\u05ea \u05d4\u05d7\u05d8\u05d5\u05e4\u05d9\u05dd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05e8\u05d9\u05e1\u05ea \u05db\u05dc \u05de\u05e0\u05d4\u05e8\u05d5\u05ea \u05d4\u05d8\u05e8\u05d5\u05e8 \u05e9\u05dc \u05d7\u05de\u05d0\u05e1 \u05d1\u05e2\u05d6\u05d4 \u05d1\u05d0\u05d5\u05e4\u05df \u05d9\u05e9\u05d9\u05e8 \u05e2&quot;\u05d9 \u05e6\u05d4&quot;\u05dc \u05d5\u05d1\u05d0\u05de\u05e6\u05e2\u05d5\u05ea \u05d4\u05de\u05e0\u05d2\u05e0\u05d5\u05df \u05d4\u05d1\u05d9\u05e0\u05dc\u05d0\u05d5\u05de\u05d9 \u05e9\u05d9\u05d5\u05e7\u05dd \u05d1\u05d4\u05d5\u05d1\u05dc\u05ea \u05d5\u05e4\u05d9\u05e7\u05d5\u05d7 \u05d0\u05e8\u05d4&quot;\u05d1.<br><br>\u05d6\u05d0\u05ea \u05d4\u05de\u05e9\u05de\u05e2\u05d5\u05ea \u05d4\u05e2\u05d9\u05e7\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea \u05e9\u05dc \u05de\u05d9\u05de\u05d5\u05e9 \u05d4\u05e2\u05d9\u05e7\u05e8\u05d5\u05df \u05e2\u05dc\u05d9\u05d5 \u05e1\u05d5\u05db\u05dd \u05e9\u05dc \u05e4\u05d9\u05e8\u05d5\u05d6 \u05e2\u05d6\u05d4 \u05d5\u05e0\u05d8\u05e8\u05d5\u05dc \u05d7\u05de\u05d0\u05e1 \u05de\u05e0\u05e9\u05e7\u05d5.<br><br>\u05d4\u05e0\u05d7\u05d9\u05ea\u05d9 \u05d0\u05ea \u05e6\u05d4&quot;\u05dc \u05dc\u05d4\u05d9\u05e2\u05e8\u05da \u05dc\u05d1\u05d9\u05e6\u05d5\u05e2 \u05d4\u05de\u05e9\u05d9\u05de\u05d4.<\/p>&mdash; \u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc \u05db\u201d\u05e5 Israel Katz (@Israel_katz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Israel_katz\/status\/1977253298580160601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Katz\u2019s statement came less than a day after Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire framework brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the United States, intended to end Israel\u2019s two year-long genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the deal, Katz\u2019s remarks make clear that Israel views the truce not as a step towards ending the military assault on the Gaza strip but as a temporary pause before relaunching its military offensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katz\u2019s public instruction for the Israeli army to prepare new operations suggests an intention to resume large-scale attacks in violation of the ceasefire agreement international humanitarian law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel\u2019s military campaign has already killed more than 67,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, and displaced nearly two million. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) continues to hear South Africa\u2019s genocide case against Israel, citing evidence of deliberate targeting of civilians, starvation, and the destruction of Gaza\u2019s health and education systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In open defiance of the newly agreed ceasefire agreement, Israel\u2019s Defence Minister Israel Katz has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[241,253,267,264,254,268],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-uncategorized","tag-bdexpress","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-genocide","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}