Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israeli forces carried out “one of the most stunning military comebacks in history,” but “we’re not done yet.”
“The final remnants of Hamas are holed up in Gaza City,” he says.
Israel must finish the job, he says, because Hamas promises to carry out October 7 “again and again and again.”
“That is why we want to do so as fast as possible.”
Much of the world “no longer remembers October 7,” Netanyahu insists, “but we remember. Israel remembers October 7.”
He asks viewers to use the QR code on his lapel to “see why we fight and why we must win.”
Netanyahu says that the 20 remaining living hostages are “starved, tortured, deprived of any daylight. Deprived of humanity.”
He reads out the names of the 20 living hostages, but does not include Tamir Nimrodi or Bipin Joshi, neither of whom has been confirmed as dead but for whom there are grave concerns.
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