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Herzog: Grieving Israel preparing for extensive military campaign against Hamas
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAmy Spiro is a reporter and writer with The Times of Israel
President Isaac Herzog speaks to foreign journalists at his residence in Jerusalem on October 12, 2023. (Amy Spiro/Times of Israel)
President Isaac Herzog says Israel is preparing for an extensive military campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
“My nation is grieving. This tragedy has inflicted almost every home in Israel,” he says in a briefing to foreign journalists at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem.
“It will be a long and drawn-out campaign against Hamas, which is basically a long and drawn-out campaign on ISIS,” he says.
Herzog shows reporters a slideshow of kidnapped children and babies, says that Holocaust survivors were killed, entire families were slaughtered together and set on fire in the brutal Hamas rampage in southern Israel.
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