Netanyahu vows to newly recruited surveillance soldiers that Hamas will never again be able to act against Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells new recruits being drafted to the IDF’s Border Defense Corps that they are being enlisted to protect Israel’s existence and to ensure the safety of generations of Israelis to come.

In a visit to Tel Hashomer military base in central Israel, Netanyahu tells the newly drafted future combat and surveillance soldiers that they are joining a long line of people before them who have defended Israel from its enemies “sometimes at a very heavy price.”

“We are protecting the existence of the country, which is also the personal existence of each and every one of you, of our families, of your friends but also of future generations,” he says.

He adds that “there is no force in the world” that will prevent Israel from achieving its stated goal of eliminating Hamas and vows that nothing like the October 7 massacre that sparked the war with the terror group will ever be allowed to happen again.

“Every one of you now, in your service, will contribute one way or another to the completion of the goal. This is the way it has to be. After doing something like this to our country, [Hamas] won’t do it again.”

On October 7, some 15 surveillance soldiers were murdered on the Nahal Oz military base by invading Hamas terrorists, and several others were abducted to Gaza.