Speaking at the Local Government Conference, Prime Minister Netanyahu said accepting the ceasefire proposal that was presented — a proposal that demanded stopping the operation — would have resulted in achieving nothing.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking at the Local Government Conference on Wednesday evening, said that accepting a proposed ceasefire that demanded halting the military operation would have yielded no gains. 'If we had agreed to the proposal that told us to stop, we would have gotten nothing,' Netanyahu said. The comment follows his earlier remarks at the same conference, where he pledged to bring 'revival to the south' and 'momentum to the north' — reported by The Zioneer at 17:33 Jerusalem — and reiterated that Israel would remain in the security buffer zone as long as he is prime minister, also reported at 17:33. The ceasefire framework, reportedly floated by international mediators in recent days and rejected by Israel's security cabinet, was not detailed by Netanyahu, who did not specify which party or country advanced it.
At the Local Government Conference earlier Wednesday (17:33 Jerusalem), The Zioneer reported Netanyahu stating that as long as he is prime minister, Israel will remain in the security buffer zone — a position he has previously extended beyond Lebanon to Gaza and Syria. That statement was followed by his pledge to bring 'revival to the south' and 'momentum to the north.' The thread shows that within an hour of those remarks, Netanyahu framed the rejection of the ceasefire proposal as vindicated. No further official confirmation has been provided regarding the precise content of the rejected proposal, and Netanyahu did not name the mediators involved.
As The Zioneer reported earlier Wednesday, the security cabinet had already decided to decline the ceasefire framework floated by international mediators. The conference remarks provide the prime minister's first public rationale for that rejection, casting it as a necessary condition for achieving tangible results.
It remains unclear which party or country put forward the ceasefire proposal that Netanyahu referenced, and no official document or statement from the mediators has been published. The prime minister did not elaborate on what specific outcomes he believes the rejection has achieved.
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