After the IDF destroyed a Hamas tunnel leading from Gaza to Israel earlier today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns the terror group against testing the Jewish state.
“We are systematically dismantling Hamas’ tunnel capability. They need to understand it isn’t worth trying us,” Netanyahu says.
The prime minister speaks aboard the USS Ross, an American guided missile destroyer currently docked in Ashdod, alongside US Ambassador David Friedman.
Turning to the West Bank, Netanyahu says Israel will track down the suspected assailants behind a pair of terror attacks there this week.
He also vows Israel will continue countering Iran’s military entrenchment in Syria.
“President Trump gave full support to our policy [in Syria] and the fact that this destroy is visiting here today is an expression of that same American support,” he says.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara aboard the USS Ross, an American guided missile destroyer, docked at the Port of Ashdod on October 11, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)
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