The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, assured today that he does not have a deadline set to end the current military operation in Gaza, while the exchange of fire with the Palestinian militias continues and after rumors yesterday about a possible ceasefire mediated by Egypt.. In statements to journalists, the head of government assured that Israel is not “with a stopwatch” nor does it have a defined time frame to put an end to the war escalation with the enclave, which today entered its tenth day, reported the digital Times of Israel.

Netanyahu met today with dozens of foreign ambassadors and assured that “Israel did everything it could” to prevent the wave of violence, referring to decisions by the Police to calm tensions with the Palestinians in East Jerusalem or the postponement of the judicial decision. on the eviction of Palestinian families in the Seij Yarrah neighborhood, triggering factors for the escalation with Gaza.

“We are trying to maximize” the operation to restore “tranquility and the period of calm that Israel can win,” the prime minister said, referring to airstrikes against militia targets of the Islamist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad.. To achieve this goal, he said, “there are two ways to do it: conquer (Gaza), and that is always a possibility, or be able to dissuade them” from attacking Israeli territory.. “We are now immersed in (applying) forceful deterrence, but we are not ruling anything out,” he warned in relation to a possible land incursion into the enclave, something that has not yet occurred.

The prime minister's meeting with dozens of diplomats comes after days of mediation attempts and international calls for the parties to reach a truce that has not yet materialized.. In turn, Israeli media reported yesterday on a possible ceasefire with Egyptian mediation that would take effect on Thursday morning, although Netanyahu did not mention this possibility today.. As he assured, in any attack on Gaza, the intelligence bodies of the Army try to “avoid collateral damage” and civilian victims.. “If democracies around the world attack Israel for it instead of Hamas, they will act clumsily and irresponsibly” and reward “terrorism,” he added on his social media..

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, contacted Netanyahu on Wednesday to inform him that he expected a “de-escalation today” towards a ceasefire. “The president told the prime minister that he expected a significant de-escalation today towards a ceasefire,” the White House said in an account of the telephone exchange between the two leaders.

Since the outbreak of the escalation on May 10, Gazan militias have launched at least 3,750 rockets into Israel. The Army, for its part, has responded with more than a thousand attacks on targets in the coastal enclave. So far, the violence has resulted in 219 Palestinian victims in Gaza, including 63 minors, and 12 dead in Israel, also including two minors.