Gantz to kibbutz members: We won’t wipe out Gaza; we will end the security threat

6 November 2023, 8:22 pm

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National Unity party leader Benny Gantz speaks at a press conference announcing Israel's national emergency government, October 11, 2023. (GPO screenshot)

Meeting today with residents of Gaza-border area Kibbutz Kissufim, who have been evacuated to hotels at the Dead Sea, war cabinet member Benny Gantz is asked whether Gaza will be wiped out by the end of the war, and the kibbutz will have an uninterrupted 7-kilometer view to the sea.

“You won’t have a view of the sea,” Gantz replies, in a clip shown on Channel 12 news. “Gaza will be there. Rafiah and Khan Younis too. We have to ensure that there will be no security threat from there.”

Gantz elaborates: “We’re not going to wipe out Gaza. It won’t be wiped out. I’m telling you here and now, it won’t be wiped out… But there won’t be a security threat that will endanger you and deprive you of the will to live there [at the kibbutz].”

At least eight Kibbutz Kissufim residents and six foreign workers were murdered by invading Hamas terrorists on October 7.