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Thursday, June 19, 2025
Gantz: Iran campaign close to a decision, ‘we must not stop’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Israel’s campaign against Iran’s nuclear program is close to a decision and “we must not stop,” Benny Gantz, the chairman of the opposition National Unity party, states following a security briefing with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In a video message, Gantz says Israelis are “all united behind the political and military echelons in this mission that guarantees Israel’s security for decades to come.
“These are complex days for us as a society, but also days of opportunity” to both return the hostages and to reverse the “stranglehold that Iran tried to build around us” into one that strangles Tehran, he says. “We must not miss the opportunity. We must continue to act.”
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