The chief of the Israeli Air Force, Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar, says the Hamas terror group will be defeated in the Gaza Strip in the near future.
“We are in the midst of the longest war in our history since the War of Independence,” Bar says at a graduation ceremony for IAF pilots. “We have been fighting for almost nine months without respite, tirelessly.”
“Hamas in Gaza will be defeated soon,” he says, adding that “we are ready to face Hezbollah in the north.”
“We have the means for this, we have the capabilities, we certainly have the patience and fighting spirit,” Bar adds.
Earlier this week, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said that Hamas would soon be defeated — “not in the sense that there are no more terrorists… but in the sense that it does not know how to function as a fighting framework.”
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