Netanyahu says hostage murders prove need for ‘unity’ in existential war against Iran

Speaking to reporters in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that in order to prevail in the existential war against Iran and its axis, there must be “unity among us.”

“We must stand united as one person against a cruel enemy that wants to destroy all of us, all of us without any exceptions,” he says, as tens of thousands of Israelis protest against his handling of hostage talks, on a day when a partial strike was called to urge him to agree to a deal.

He says the murder of the six hostages last week was further evidence of this fact, as he names each of them.

The bodies of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, Eden Yerushalmi, 24, Ori Danino, 25, Alex Lobanov, 32, Carmel Gat, 40, and Almog Sarusi, 27, were extracted from Gaza by the IDF on the weekend, after they were all executed last week.