Instead of virtue signaling, Washington should stop enabling Tel Aviv's Gaza action: China Daily editorial
China DailyAn injured person is evacuated from an Israeli air force helicopter landing in the grounds of Sheba Tel-HaShomer Medical Centre in Ramat Gan on June 8, 2024, following an operation to rescue four Israeli hostages held captive in the Gaza Strip since the October 7 attacks amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the militant group Hamas. While Tel Aviv tried to compare its "successful" rescue of four hostages from Hamas in Gaza's Nuseirat camp on Saturday morning to the "Entebbe raid" of 1976, when Israeli commandos rescued more than 100 hostages in Uganda, many Israeli people are more realistic about the exploit that according to Hamas claimed at least 274 Palestinian lives including 64 children. The haste with which the Israeli military disclosed the details of the "heroic" rescue, following the four hostages arriving home safe and sound on Saturday afternoon, shows how eager the Netanyahu government is to convince the Israeli people that it can deliver on its promise to free the hostages held by Hamas. That far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir demanded a place alongside Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in the war cabinet immediately after Gantz's announcement is a worrying sign that the war cabinet will become even more bloodthirsty as Ben-Gvir is part of the right-wing Otzma Yehudit party that has threatened to quit and bring down the coalition government if Israel accepts a cease-fire proposal put forward by US President Joe Biden.