Khaberni - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - wanted by the International Criminal Court for committing war crimes in Gaza - said that moving to the second stage of the ceasefire agreement is linked to exhausting the available information on recovering the remaining bodies of Israeli prisoners in the sector.
Netanyahu noted that the Israeli military has not yet completed the first phase of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, and that it will continue working to recover the last 3 bodies of Israeli prisoners.
The Israeli Prime Minister also confirmed that the United States wants what he described as a test of deploying an international force in Gaza, but Israel informed the Americans that the time is not indefinitely open.
He also pointed out that the primary mission of the international force intended to be deployed in Gaza, as defined by the United Nations Security Council resolution and President Donald Trump's plan, "is to dismantle Hamas and disarm the Gaza Strip".
Netanyahu claimed that the Israeli military's incursion into Gaza City was the deciding factor in the prisoner release process, indicating that what he described as the violent phase of the war had ended, with the possibility of returning to combat on any front if circumstances required, according to him.
Speaking of the Rafah crossing, Netanyahu said that the crossing will only be opened for the departure of Palestinians from Gaza, after completing the phase of recovering the bodies of Israeli prisoners.
Netanyahu called on Egypt to allow Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing.
Under a swap deal, part of a ceasefire agreement in Gaza on October 10, Palestinian factions released 20 living Israeli prisoners and the remains of 27 others out of 28, according to their announcements.
However, Israel claimed that one of the remains it received does not belong to any of its prisoners, and that another set of remains was not new but leftovers from a prisoner whose remains had previously been recovered.
Since the signing of the ceasefire agreement, Israeli escalations and violations have resulted in more than 300 martyrs, with the continued policy of demolishing and blowing up homes, and the closure of the Rafah land crossing.
The Israeli genocidal war in the Gaza Strip began on October 7, 2023, and stopped after two years by a ceasefire agreement, after leaving more than 69,000 Palestinian martyrs and more than 170,000 injured, most of them children and women, with a reconstruction cost estimated by the United Nations at about $70 billion.
