Netanyahu: 3 IDF troops killed in Gaza didn’t fall in vain, we will achieve all of war’s goals

By Lazar Berman

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3 June 2025, 6:03 pm

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Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in a video message from his office in Jerusalem, June 3, 2025. (Screenshot)

In a video message to the families of the three Israeli soldiers who were killed by a roadside bomb yesterday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the infantrymen “did not fall in vain.”

“They fell in a uniquely just war,” he says, “a war in which we will defeat Hamas, release all our hostages and ensure that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel.”

As Operation Gideon’s Chariots expands in Gaza, Netanyahu says the IDF is making “careful progress to prevent or reduce as much as possible” further troops’ deaths.

The price is heavy, he continues, promising that “we will achieve the goals of the war — all of them — without exception.”