Haaretz: Israel is the one that violated the Gaza agreement, not Hamas and what matters to Netanyahu is Ben-Gvir’s return to vote on the budget

Israeli Haaretz newspaper, spoke about Israel being the one who violated the Gaza agreement, and not Hamas.

According to Haaretz newspaper, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is lying when he justifies his resumption of the war on the Gaza Strip by the refusal of Hamas to release the remaining prisoners it is holding.

Haaretz reported that Netanyahu paid the required amount for the return of resigned National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to the government in advance, but not from his own pocket, of course, but from the blood of 59 Israeli hostages whose fate may have been sealed by the resumption of the war.

It’s worth noting that Netanyahu’s Likud party announced that Ben-Gvir’s Jewish Power party would return to the government coalition.

This coincided with Israel’s launch of massive airstrikes on Tuesday, which left more than 400 Palestinian dead.

Ben-Gvir’s party withdrew from the coalition in January in protest against the truce with Hamas in Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip.

In a statement issued Tuesday, Netanyahu’s office claimed that the resumption of attacks on Gaza came after Hamas repeatedly refused to return our kidnapped soldiers, as well as rejecting all proposals it received from US envoy Steven Witkoff and mediators.

Haaretz wrote that it must be said, “loudly and clearly, that the statement was a lie, and emphasized that Israel, not Hamas, was the one that violated the ceasefire agreement with the Palestinian resistance”.

Haaretz continued by saying that the Prime Minister’s Office lied once again when it stated in its statement that the goal of resuming the aggression was to achieve the war’s objectives as defined by the political leadership, including the release of all Israeli prisoners, living or dead.

Haaretz warned that the military pressure exerted by Israel against Hamas endangers the lives of Israeli prisoners and soldiers, as well as the residents of Gaza, and leads to the destruction of what remains of the Palestinian Strip, noting that negotiations on the second phase of the ceasefire agreement were supposed to begin on the 16th day of the first phase, which was scheduled to conclude with the release of all remaining prisoners in Gaza, but the Israeli government rejected this.

Haaretz added that Israel had broken its promise to withdraw from the Philadelphi Corridor, and had decided to prevent the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza and close the border crossings.

The Israeli newspaper concluded that Netanyahu abandoned the prisoners to save his government from collapse, and that neither he nor the members of his ruling coalition are concerned about the anger of the prisoners’ families, because for them, what matters is the approval of the state budget.