Speaking at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting — and before the Hamas attack on IDF troops in Rafah — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicates that the war that started on October 7 is reaching its conclusion.
“Today I am bringing to the government for approval the proposal to give the war an official, permanent name: ‘The War of Revival,'” says Netanyahu in a video released by his office. “At the end of two consecutive years of fighting, we remember how we began. We rose from the terrible disaster of October 7.”
He adds that Israel is about to award decorations to soldiers who fought in the war, a practice done after wars end in Israel: “As in previous military campaigns, the decorations of the current campaign will bear the official name of the War of Revival.”
According to Hebrew media reports, Netanyahu leaves the cabinet meeting after terrorists in the Gaza Strip launch an attack on Israeli forces in southern Gaza’s Rafah.
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