As potentially fateful talks for a hostage and ceasefire deal are underway in Qatar, 10 hardliners from the ruling Likud party issue a public letter addressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, detailing four “red lines as members of the Likud movement and as members of the coalition” that must not be compromised on.
One minister and nine lawmakers write that they back the premier in insisting on the four “red lines that must not be crossed.”
The first demand is that Israeli troops physically remain at the Philadelphi Corridor and Rafah Crossing at the Gaza-Egypt border, as well as at the Netzarim Corridor currently bisecting the Strip into two, and that they not be replaced by technological means or non-Israeli forces.
The second is that “the enemy” not be allowed to return to northern Gaza, even if terror operatives pose as civilians.
The third red line is that any deal return all of the hostages.
Their final condition is a “total rejection of any withdrawal” from the border with Lebanon.
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