He added: “I do not need any help in managing our relations with the United States and the international community, while firmly maintaining our national interests. Thank God, I have been doing this for a few years.”
Israel and the United States disagreed over a number of issues related to the nearly four-month-old war, including fuel and aid supplies to the Gaza Strip, and the level of fighting.
They are also at odds over the enclave's plans once the war is over. Israel insists on security control over the West Bank and Gaza Strip for the foreseeable future, and rejects an American plan requiring the Palestinian Authority to govern the coastal Strip.
In his comments to Wall Street JournalBen Gvir said his plan for Gaza is to repopulate the Strip with Israeli settlements and provide cash incentives for Palestinians to emigrate.
In response to Ben Gvir’s interview, former opposition politician Benny Gantz, who joined the emergency unity government last year, tweeted a message of thanks to Biden, saying: “The people of Israel will forever remember how I stood for Israel’s right.” “In one of our most difficult hours.”
The dispute highlighted the tense political climate in Israel four months after a devastating attack by Hamas in October, during which about 1,200 people were killed, according to Israeli statistics, and about 240 were dragged hostage into Gaza.
In response, Israel flattened large swaths of the Gaza Strip in a relentless campaign that killed more than 27,000 people, according to Palestinian health authorities, and forced most of the 2.3 million population to flee their homes.
Meanwhile, Palestinian militants continued their attacks against Israeli forces on Sunday in the two main cities in the Gaza Strip, weeks after troops and tanks overran them, a sign that Hamas still maintains some control ahead of any potential truce.
Continuous fighting broke out in Gaza City, north of the densely populated Strip, and in Khan Yunis, in the south.
Netanyahu said that 17 of the 24 Hamas combat battalions had been dismantled. He added that the rest were mostly in the southern Gaza Strip, including Rafah, on the Egyptian border of the Strip.
“We will take care of them too,” he said, according to a statement issued by his office. Hamas does not publish its losses.
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White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said that the United States will continue to try to get more aid into Gaza, which is facing a severe humanitarian crisis.
“And that means putting pressure on Israel on issues related to the humanitarian aid that we helped open and get into the Gaza Strip and there has to be more of it,” he told CBS Television. Facing the nation program.
