On the side of Britain's support for Israel and the aims of the war, the British minister requested that Israel reopen the Kerem Shalom crossing for the transfer of humanitarian aid from its territory to the Gaza Strip. This despite the fact that Israel has made it clear that it will not do so.ย
In addition, Cameron demanded "to take action to end settler violence in the West Bank." Netanyahu did not respond directly to Cameron's claims but said:
"We hope to get our hostages out, there are many challenges on the way. We hope to take out the first group, and after that, we are committed to taking out all of them.
We will continue with the goals of the war and to destroy Hamas, because Hamas has already promised that they will do the same thing again and again and again. This is a sect that advocates genocide. There is no hope for peace between Israel and the Palestinians and between Israel and the Arab countries if we do not eradicate this murderous movement, which threatens the future of all of us.
This is a wider war of civilization against barbarism. The cruelty you saw during your visit is the most terrible cruelty experienced by the Jewish people since the Holocaust. As the world united to defeat the Nazis, or al-Qaeda after 9/11, or ISIS - we must unite to defeat Hamas.
Israel suffered, relatively speaking, 20 times 9/11. It is as if 50,000 Americans were slaughtered in one day, and 10,000 were kidnapped, including a nine-month-old baby; He still can't walk, he still can't talk, but he's in captivity. What kind of people do such things? The answer is that it's not people, it's monsters. These monsters must go - and they will. We will continue the war until we achieve this goal and guarantee a different future for Gaza and for us."
The meeting was attended by the Israeli side: the Minister of Strategic Affairs, R. M.L.L., R. Hasgal, the Prime Minister's Secretary of State, the Political Counselor and the Israeli Embassy in Great Britain. On the British side, among others, the British Ambassador to Israel and the Head of the Identity and North Africa Division at the British Foreign Office participated.
Source: Ariel Kahana - Telegram