Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that today, the Jewish calendar “marks the end of two years of war.”
Netanyahu tells Trump, who is due to speak after him at the Knesset, that Israel remembers the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack that launched the war, in which thousands of terrorists invaded Israel and murdered 1,200 people, committed numerous atrocities and took 251 people hostage, including many children.
“These monsters take babies as hostages,” Netanyahu says.
In response, Netanyahu continues, “Israel did what it had to do. With indomitable courage, we set out to defend our people, to defeat our enemies, and to release our hostages.”
Israel achieved “amazing victories over Hamas and the entire Iranian terror axis,” he says.
Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile program has been “rolled back,” he tells Trump.
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