Netanyahu's speech from a few days ago was released today on social media, after the White House announced that there are some obstacles for the United States to continue providing weapons to Israel after the invasion of the city of Rafah, located in the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip, where about 1.2 million people are concentrated (half of the population of that Palestinian territory), displaced due to the Israeli military offensive against Hamas.

"I say to the leaders of the world that no pressure, no decision in any international forum will prevent Israel from defending itself (...). If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone", Netanyahu said in a speech delivered on Holocaust Remembrance Day, at a ceremony in Jerusalem.

"Countless decent people all over the world support our just cause (...). We will defeat our genocidal enemies", said the Israeli prime minister.

Following the White House announcement, some Israeli officials, such as the representative to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, expressed their disappointment that this "gives hope" to "Israel's enemies".

In turn, the Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, toughened his tone and even went so far as to link Biden to Hamas, which earned him a reprimand from Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

The Israeli government is scheduled to meet today to discuss this alleged setback inflicted by the Biden administration, which just a few days ago said that the United States would always stand with Israel, despite the differences.

On October 7th of last year, Israel declared war on the Gaza Strip to "eradicate" Hamas after the latter had carried out an unprecedented attack on Israeli territory hours earlier, killing 1,163 people, mostly civilians.

In power in Gaza since 2007 and classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Israel, Hamas also took 250 hostages, 128 of whom remain in captivity and at least 35 have died in the meantime, according to the latest report by the Israeli authorities.

The war, which today entered its 216th day and continues to threaten to spread throughout the Middle East region, has so far caused nearly 35,000 deaths in the Gaza Strip, at least 78,404 wounded and thousands of missing people presumably buried in the rubble, mostly civilians, according to updated figures from local authorities.

The conflict has also caused nearly two million displaced people, plunging the overcrowded and impoverished Palestinian enclave into a severe humanitarian crisis, with more than 1.1 million people in a "catastrophic hunger situation" that is claiming victims - "the highest number ever recorded" by the UN in food security studies in the world.

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