Minister Benny Gantz tells reporters that Israel has not set a time limit for its current Gaza ground operation to root out Hamas.
“On the question of the operation’s length – there are no limitations,” Gantz says, sitting down with journalists in Tel Aviv earlier today.
The former defense minister and IDF chief, currently a member of the narrow war cabinet, says the current war is an existential one, both in terms of Israeli security, as well as preserving the state’s Zionist and democratic values.
“The war here is for our existence and for Zionism, and so I can’t provide an estimate of the length of each stage in the war and the fighting that will ensue after. We can’t retreat from our strategic objective,” Gantz says, adding that Hamas threatens “Zionist and democratic concepts.”
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