{"id":2451,"date":"2024-02-08T10:08:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T04:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usbnews24.com\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2024-02-08T14:09:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T08:09:19","slug":"israel-pm-netanyahu-dismisses-hamas-demand-for-ceasefire-orders-troops-to-southern-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/?p=2451","title":{"rendered":"Israel PM Netanyahu dismisses Hamas demand for ceasefire, orders troops to southern Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday (Feb 8) dismissed\u00a0Hamas&#8217;s demand for a ceasefire\u00a0and ordered troops to prepare to move on the city of Rafah in Gaza&#8217;s far south, where more than one million Palestinians have sought refuge.<\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking in Tel Aviv hours after meeting Netanyahu, said he still saw &#8220;space for agreement to be reached&#8221; and that he had warned the Israeli leader against actions and talk that &#8220;inflame tensions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu had told a televised briefing that he had ordered troops to &#8220;prepare to operate&#8221; in Rafah and that a &#8220;total victory&#8221; by Israel over Hamas was just months away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday (Feb 8) dismissed\u00a0Hamas&#8217;s demand for a ceasefire\u00a0and ordered troops to prepare to move on the city of Rafah in Gaza&#8217;s far south, where more than one million Palestinians have sought refuge. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking in Tel Aviv hours after meeting Netanyahu, said he still saw &#8220;space for agreement to be reached&#8221; and that he had warned the Israeli leader against actions and talk that &#8220;inflame tensions&#8221;. Netanyahu had told a televised briefing that he had ordered troops to &#8220;prepare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}