War cabinet minister Benny Gantz uses the Tel Aviv press conference to threaten Hezbollah, which has already lost 79 fighters in the fighting along the northern border.
“What’s happening now in northern Gaza can also happen in southern Lebanon and Beirut,” Gantz says.
Addressing Iran, Gantz says, “We know how to [act toward those attacking] us, as well as to those who are sending them.”
“No harm to Israel’s sovereignty will go unanswered,” he declares.
Commenting on the hostage deal, Gantz says it was one of the hardest decisions he has made over 40 years of service defending Israel, and adds that additional difficult choices lie ahead.
Addressing Hamas’s leaders in Arabic, Gantz says, “We are a long-suffering and patient people.”
Israelis managed to build a state and an army after surviving the Holocaust and “we don’t think in days, but in eternity.”
Gantz acknowledges that there are those who disagreed with the hostage deal and insists that he respects those voices and is determined to keep Israeli society united in the war against Hamas.
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