‘It began in Gaza and will end in Gaza,’ Netanyahu says at event celebrating outpost legalization

By Lazar Berman

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27 August 2025, 12:58 am

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Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

This handout photo shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing an event celebrating the legalization of West Bank settlement outposts, on August 26, 2025. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Speaking after a security cabinet meeting on Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says cryptically, “It began in Gaza and it will end in Gaza.”

“We will not leave those monsters there; we will free all our hostages; we will ensure that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel,” says Netanyahu at a Jerusalem event celebrating the legalization of outposts in the Binyamin Regional Council.

He boasts that his government is blocking the creation of a Palestinian state.

“I said we would prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state – and we are doing that, together,” he says. “I said we would build and hold on to parts of our land, our homeland – and we are doing that.”