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Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Hanegbi says Israel in third stage of Gaza operation, will win despite the pain
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
File: National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi gives a statement to the media at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv on October 14, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
Speaking in Tel Aviv, National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi says the first stage in the war, containing the Hamas attack and clearing southern Israel of terrorists, is over, as is the second stage, striking “with precision and force all the enemy systems through quality intelligence from air, land, and sea.”
The third and current stage is the ground operation in the northern Gaza Strip.
“It is a difficult campaign,” he says, “and it demands intensive combat. There is no combat without a painful price. We are a fighting nation, despite the pain. We are determined to win, despite the pain.”
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