Likud MK Danny Danon rejects a reported comment made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the Oslo Accords caused as many deaths as Hamas’s October 7 attacks, “though over a longer period.”
A number of Hebrew media outlets reported that Netanyahu made the comments yesterday during a closed-door meeting of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
Danon, who is a member of the committee, tells the Kan public broadcaster such comparisons are wrong.
“There is no place to compare, both because we are in the middle of a war, and because the events of that black Saturday happened in a number of hours, a number of killed and wounded that Israel has never seen since its founding,” he says.
Netanyahu has been widely seen as trying to shift blame away from himself for the October 7 assault when Hamas caught Israel by surprise and sent some 3,000 terrorists across the border, killing more than 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and taking some 240 hostage.
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