Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel in an address to the nation said: “The Biden administration threatened to cut off our weapons if we entered Gaza, and we told them that we are not a satellite state of the United States.” “The greatest obstacle to peace is the Palestinians’ refusal to recognize the Jewish state,” Netanyahu said and categorically rejected any proposal for a Palestinian state.
He said: “Creating a Palestinian state is a ridiculous idea, and we have seen what a Palestinian state has brought to Gaza.” “The normalization agreements [Abraham Accords] that made us happy have collided with Iranian attempts to change the Arab world and turn it against us,” he reported. “Iran has promised to destroy Israel because we prevent them from controlling the Middle East,” Benjamin Netanyahu continued.
He also spoke about Yahya Sinwar: “Sinwar’s carefully crafted plan was for them to launch successive invasions against us from Gaza and Lebanon, but we stopped everything.” He continued: “We caused a terrible shock to Hezbollah with the pager attack. In a matter of hours, we destroyed weapons and missiles that Hezbollah had been preparing for 30 years.”
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu also said that the United States was not informed of Israel’s plans to assassinate Hassan Nasrallah until “the fighter jets were in the air.” “Some people are truly irreplaceable, and Nasrallah is one of them, and we killed him,” Benjamin Netanyahu said. He continued: “The southern suburbs of Beirut are your most important and last stronghold, and it will no longer be a safe zone.” “We have been able to turn the tables on Iran and weaken many of its threats to us in the region.” “We have destroyed the Iranian axis, but we still have a lot to do.” “We have pushed the Iranians back 10 years after they “thought they were close to acquiring a nuclear weapon.”
Also Netanyahu: “We will destroy Iran’s nuclear reactors and enrichment facilities to ensure they cannot enrich for any purpose [including civilian].” “We will not accept anything less than the complete destruction of all Iranian nuclear capabilities to ensure they do not attempt to revive their program under another US administration.” “We will not accept a solution to the Iranian nuclear issue other than through the Libyan method.”
On the issue of prisoners, an Israeli source said that after the Mossad chief’s visit to Qatar, if the positions of Israel and Hamas remain the same as they are now, they will not be able to overcome their differences and reach an agreement. The source added: “It’s not that there is no possibility that they will change in light of reality, and there is also a possibility that this will happen, but at the moment we are talking about very big differences.”
According to military analysts in the Middle East social sphere: “It is interesting that Netanyahu decided to make this speech the day after the mysterious explosion in Bandar Abbas. Without getting into conspiracy theories, this is a very suspicious timing for a sudden explosion – similar to the Mossad sabotage across Iran in 2019-2020 – and the day after, Netanyahu makes this threatening and undeniably threatening speech.
According to analysts, the explosion in Bandar Abbas was not accidental. “If it was negligence, it was controlled, tolerated or permitted negligence. We have seen over the past year and a half how deep Israel’s espionage and covert activities are. Maybe Israeli agents did not directly cause the attack, maybe they were not even on the ground during this attack. But did they need to be? Of course not.”
And the analysis continues: “Netanyahu is obviously very dissatisfied with the existence, regardless of progress or context, of negotiations with Iran, especially with Trump – an Israeli-installed candidate – who is the driving force behind these talks. However, Israel has always had a better public position, even if negotiations are taking place. Although Trump has reiterated his intention to negotiate before attacking, let’s not pretend that Trump will condemn or rebuke Netanyahu for attacking Iran during this period of negotiation. At worst, some private anger will be vented, but Washington will never publicly oppose Israeli attacks on Iran.”
And they conclude: “At best, Trump is putting on a farce in front of the entire world with these negotiations. At worst, it’s all a gigantic pretext. Iran will never give up its nuclear program, its nuclear program will have to be wrested from its hands by force. Trump may try to move forward with negotiations, hoping for a diplomatic solution, but we all know he can’t outsmart the Jewish lobby and Israel, especially when he owes his influence to them.”
Israel Broadcasting confirms Channel 12’s report that Netanyahu held security consultations with senior security officials. Channel 12 host says: “Netanyahu’s speech is a declaration of war on Iran.”
And now a look at the military scenarios as of 3:30 p.m., April 28. Munitions, including 2,000-pound GBU-31 JDAM guided bombs and AGM-154 JSOWs, are loaded onto F-35C fighters from Strike Fighter Squadron 97 (VFA-97) aboard the aircraft carrier CVN-70 Carl Vinson in the U.S. Arabic, as attacks continue against Houthi rebels in western Yemen. On April 26, a long-range ballistic missile launched by the Houthis toward southern Israel was intercepted by a battery of the US military’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system, located in the Negev desert, a senior defense official said. Since February, at least seven ballistic missiles launched from Yemen have been intercepted by a THAAD battery, sent to Israel by the Biden administration in October 2024. The Houthis have spoken of a military operation against the Nevatim air base in the Negev region.
On April 26, a series of US airstrikes on Kamaran Island, in the coastal Red Sea province of Hodeidah, in western Yemen. The Israeli ship Galaxy Leader, captured by the Houthi-led Yemeni navy in the fall of 2023, was bombed by US aircraft. On April 27, the Ministry of Health and Environment: 12 dead and wounded are the initial toll of enemy US attacks on civilian and residential structures in the capital. Two dead and one wounded following the US bombing of a residential neighborhood behind the Lebanese hospital in the October 14 neighborhood.
Nine wounded, including two women and three children, following the US bombing of a residential neighborhood west of Al-Rawdah, in the Bani Al-Harith district.
Syrian military sources report that Syrian army positions near the town of Haush in Sayed Ali, on the border with Lebanon, were hit on the evening of April 26 by five projectiles fired by Hezbollah militants from Lebanon. The Syrian army says it intervened directly at the sources of the fire.
Israeli forces vehicles are moving from the Ras Al-Ain neighborhood toward the Tor checkpoint. Four US airstrikes on Burt Al-Annan district, Al-Jawf governorate. Deaths and injuries as a result of US aggression against Saada.
The IDF issued an evacuation order for a large warehouse in Dahiye, Beirut on April 27 and then carried out Israeli drone strikes Beirut, Lebanon. An Israeli airstrike struck the threatened area in the southern suburbs of Beirut. This is Jamous, in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The IDF reported that an airstrike was carried out in the Khalta area of southern Lebanon, killing a Hezbollah militant who was promoting the rehabilitation of the group in the Khalta area. Security sources told IDF Radio that Hezbollah had stored a significant amount of weapons at the targeted location. We have found that this organization is violating the ceasefire agreement and therefore its activities must be stopped.
Artillery fire, with artillery targeting Qizan al-Najjar, near the Saada Land resort in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip. 3 injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting a group of Palestinians in eastern Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip. Al-Qassam Brigades hit an Israeli Merkava 4 tank with a “Yassin 105” shell east of the Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City. Israeli media reported on April 26 that The deputy commander of an Israeli army company was killed during clashes in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli shelling of a house in Al-Maghazi camp, central Gaza Strip. 70 killed in Israeli air strikes in several areas of the Gaza Strip since dawn Sunday. Israeli strikes targeting the Abu Mahadi family, west of Jabalia camp in Gaza. At this time, heavy artillery shelling on Al-Satka Street and Wadi al-Ariyas, east of Gaza.
Massive fires have broken out in the Wadi Qelt area in the eastern West Bank. Mobilization of planes and firefighting teams, attempts to evacuate hundreds of people and fears of being stranded.
Israeli forces stormed Al-Fawwar camp, south of Hebron. Live ammunition and stun grenades fired during the assault on Al-Fawr camp, south of Hebron. Israeli forces are storming the town of Jbaa, south of Jenin.
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