‘Our War Is Also Your War’: Netanyahu Calls For ‘All Free Countries’ to ‘Unequivocally’ Reject Ceasefire Until Hostages Are Home

“We will not stop until we complete this campaign,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in remarks before gathered press on Saturday evening. “There is nothing other than a victory.”

Netanyahu rejected calls for ceasefire negotiations on Saturday and said in his remarks that the campaign in Gaza will not end until Hamas has been “eradicated” and the hostages taken by the terrorist group have been returned home.

In his comments the Prime Minister also thanked the United States for its support, and said that the American people agree with Israel’s campaign in Gaza against Hamas, and that they are struggling against the voices of dissent.

“I’d like to say that the majority of the American public supports us and the policy that we are leading,” he said. “Yes, there are other voices heard as well, but we’re struggling against them.”

On the subject of a ceasefire, which several Democrats and most of the American media have been pushing for, Netanyahu rejected the idea forcefully, and appealed to all other nations to reject the idea as well while citizens of Israel and other nations taken hostage in the brutal October 7 terror attack are still being held by Hamas.

“Free people in all the free countries of the world, they have that moral decree to help Israel, to release our hostages, and to object unequivocally to the idea of a ceasefire until we have brought our hostages home,” he said. “Please mobilize to that objective. It is your objective too.”

Netanyahu also pointed out that their are objections to Israel’s campaign in Gaza in other countries, which he attributed to “minorities that are wielding pressure on their leaders.”

“But I’m telling you, do not surrender to that pressure, because our war is also your war,” he said. “And in this war we must win for our sakes, but also for your sakes.”

Netanyahu also said that he wants it to be clear that no “international pressure” or any “aspersions cast about the IDF and about what we’re doing” will deter Israel in its campaign against Hamas. “It is a decree, it is an imperative, it’s incumbent upon us to defend the only State of the Jewish people,” he said.

Netanyahu warned Hezbollah and Lebanon.

“We are also prepared on the northern front, and we are working there very strongly from the air and on the ground. And I warned Hezbollah. Do not make that mistake and start a war because that will be the mistake of your lives,” he said. “The moment you start a war, this will decide on the destiny of Lebanon.”

Watch the clip above, via BBC News.