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Israeli envoy to US calls Gaza the world’s ‘biggest terror complex’
Michael Herzog, the Israeli ambassador to the US, says Gaza is “the biggest terror complex in the world,” with tens of thousands of fighters and rockets, among other weaponry — and 310 miles (500 kilometers) of underground tunnels.
“This is what we’re up against. And we have to uproot it, because if we do not, they will strike again and again,” Herzog told CBS’s “Face the Nation,” in an interview aired Sunday.
He also says Israel is making every effort to distinguish between “terrorists and the civilian population” in its war with the Hamas terror group that rules Gaza.
“This is a very complicated military operation in a densely populated area, and we’re trying to move the population away from that war zone,” he says.