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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for the immediate withdrawal of United Nations peacekeeping forces from southern Lebanon, accusing Hezbollah of using the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) as "human shields." In a statement directed at UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Netanyahu emphasised the need to evacuate UNIFIL personnel from areas controlled by Hezbollah, arguing that their presence endangers both peacekeepers and Israeli soldiers.

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00:00In these days, we mark a year of the hard war that was imposed on us, the war of resurrection
00:24against the evil regime of Iran, which rose against us to our knees.
00:28We are determined to ensure our future and we are determined to defeat our enemy.
00:35In Lebanon, we have defeated Nasrallah and his choice.
00:38Our heroic soldiers destroy the weapons, the command posts and the terror tunnels of Hezbollah.
00:45They fight with force to return our residents to the north safely to their homes.
00:50We will not fight the Lebanese people.
00:53We will fight the terror mission of Iran-Hezbollah, which conquered Lebanon.
00:58I want to direct a message to the UN Secretary General.
01:01The time has come for you to remove UNIFIL from the borders of Hezbollah and its battlefields.
01:06The IDF has asked for this again and again, and it is faced with a repeated confusion,
01:11which is all intended to provide a human shield to the terrorists of Hezbollah.
01:15Your confusion about defeating UNIFIL's soldiers makes them the victims of Hezbollah.
01:21This is both endangering them and the lives of our soldiers.
01:23We are restricting the attack on UNIFIL soldiers and we are doing everything in our power to prevent this attack.
01:30But the simple and demanding way to ensure this is to simply remove them from the area of danger.
01:36Mr. Secretary General, get the UNIFIL forces out of harm's way.
01:41It should be done right now, immediately.
01:44Unfortunately, some of the leaders of Europe are putting pressure on the wrong place.
01:49Instead of sending criticism of Israel, they need to turn the criticism towards Hezbollah,
01:54which uses UNIFIL as a human shield, just as Hamas in Gaza uses UNRWA as a human shield.
02:01Unfortunately, UNRWA is also cooperating with Hamas there.
02:03In Gaza, we continue to act in the depth of the field in order to eliminate Hamas and bring freedom to all our forces.
02:11Our brave soldiers are now in Left Jabalia, where they are separating Hamas' forces.
02:16One hundred and one of our soldiers in Gaza are always in our sights.
02:21We will do everything in order to bring them all back home.
02:26In Judea and Samaria, our forces are operating non-stop, both in the dry land and in the air,
02:32in order to eliminate the terror in their hearts.
02:34Terror will not prevail there, because we will not allow it to prevail.
02:38In other areas, we will continue to act in order to ensure the security of Israel.
02:45There are moments during the war when it is easy to act, and I ask all officers to act on this rule.
02:53We will speak little and do a lot.
02:57With God's help, we will succeed and succeed.
03:00Citizens of Israel, Happy New Year and a Happy New Year to all of you.

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