{"id":40446,"date":"2024-04-21T23:58:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T03:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=40446"},"modified":"2024-04-21T23:58:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T03:58:35","slug":"israel-pm-netanyahu-to-increase-pressure-on-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/israel-pm-netanyahu-to-increase-pressure-on-hamas\/40446\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel PM Netanyahu to \u2018increase pressure\u2019 on Hamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to intensify the military crackdown on Hamas. In a video address on Sunday, Netanyahu threatened action \u201cin the coming days,\u201d without elaborating on the time and place. \u201cWe will strike it with additional painful blows \u2014 and this will happen soon,\u201d he said as quoted by Xinhua news agency report.<\/p>\n<p>He added that in the next few days, Israel \u201cwill increase the military and diplomatic pressure on Hamas because this is the only way to free our hostages and achieve our victory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu has previously said that the Israeli military will initiate a ground assault on Rafah, despite international calls to refrain from such action due to the expected toll it would exact on more than one million civilians seeking shelter in Gaza\u2019s southern city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to intensify the military crackdown on Hamas. In a video address on Sunday,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":40447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[1629,1450,6060,1380,1438,1530,1418,1647,5052,536,13248],"class_list":["post-40446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-ceasefire","tag-civilians","tag-crackdown","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-hostages","tag-israel-hamas-war","tag-israeli-pm-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-oct-7-attacks","tag-palestine","tag-presssure"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}