100 days of Gaza war
Netanyahu: Israel is waging a “just war”
Benjamin Netanyahu’s popularity plummeted in Israel after the unprecedented attack. photo
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Israel’s head of government describes the genocide lawsuit filed by South Africa as a “moral low point in the history of the nation.” His country will fight “until the end.”
“The hypocritical attack in The Hague against the state of the Jews, which arose from the ashes of the Holocaust, at the behest of those who came to commit another Holocaust against the Jews, is a moral low point in the history of nations.” said Netanyahu. The army found copies of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” in the Hamas tunnels under the Gaza Strip. The Islamists of Hamas are “the new Nazis,” said Netanyahu, quoting Chancellor Olaf Scholz. He thanked him for Germany’s clear rejection of the genocide claim.
Netanyahu has been criticized since the attack
A massacre by Hamas and other extremist organizations in southern Israel with 1,200 deaths and the abduction of civilians and soldiers into the Gaza Strip triggered the Gaza war on October 7th. Since then, Israel’s military has launched massive air strikes and a ground offensive against Hamas. Netanyahu’s popularity plummeted after the unprecedented attack. The public in his country accuses him of neglecting the security forces’ preparations for such an attack.
“We will continue the war to the end – to complete victory, until we have achieved all of our goals: eliminating Hamas, returning all of our hostages and ensuring that Gaza will never again pose a threat to Israel,” Netanyahu said. It is also a war against “the axis of evil, led by Iran and its three proxies,” said the head of government, citing not only Hamas but also the Shiite militia Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen.