PM: Iran war opened broad regional possibilities, ‘first we need to free the hostages’

Visiting a Shin Bet facility in southern Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel’s operation against Iran has opened up many opportunities, including “broad regional possibilities.”

“First of all, [we need] to free the hostages,” he says. “Of course, we will also have to solve the Gaza issue, to defeat Hamas, but I believe that we will achieve both tasks.”

Netanyahu meets with “S.,” the acting head of the domestic intelligence organization.

S. says that the Shin Bet thwarted an average of two significant Iranian attempts to direct attacks inside Israel every day of the campaign against Tehran’s nuclear program, leaving them with “zero successes” in that effort during the war.

Netanyahu is holding his cabinet meeting now in the IDF Southern Command Headquarters in Beersheba.