The Israel-Hamas war|The attacks
Task: Biden got Israel to stop attacks on Lebanon
Israeli planes were already in the air when, on October 11 of this year, Joe Biden persuaded Benjamin Netanyahu to call off a large-scale attack against Hezbollah in Lebanon. That's what the Wall Street Journal writes.
According to sources for the newspaper, Israel must have had information that Hezbollah was planning a similar attack to the one carried out by Hamas on October 7. That information later turned out to be wrong.
Israel did not want to answer the Wall Street Journal's questions. The article is based, among other things, on interviews with former defense officials.
On Sunday, Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel's military decisions "are not influenced by external pressure."
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Netanyahu: The US does not influence how we wage war
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects reports that the United States has persuaded the country to limit its warfare.
- This is not true. Israel is an independent state. Our decisions in the war are made depending on our operational considerations, and I will not say more about that, he said according to Reuters.
It was during yesterday that the Wall Street Journal reported that Joe Biden persuaded Netanyahu not to carry out a major attack against Hezbollah in Lebanon, as such could have triggered a major regional war.
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Nine Israelis killed - heavy losses on Saturday
Nine Israeli soldiers were killed yesterday in Gaza, according to the Israeli military, according to AFP.
This means that Saturday was one of the deadliest days since the ground invasion of the area began on 27 October.
A total of 152 Israeli soldiers have been killed during the offensive, according to AFP. Spokespersons for the Israeli military confirmed to the BBC earlier this weekend that it is expanding its ground offensive in the area.
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The Israel-Hamas war|The attacks
At least 60 are said to be dead in an attack on a refugee camp
At least 60 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Health Ministry said.
Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra says there is no longer any safe place in Gaza.
- What happened in the Maghazi camp is a massacre, he says according to Reuters.
Journalists from the AP news agency who were in a nearby hospital testify that they saw the dead and wounded being carried out of the camp, including children.
The weekend has been one of the bloodiest since the start of the war. On Saturday, 166 Palestinians were killed, according to the Ministry of Health. Israeli military states that 14 soldiers were killed this weekend.
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