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PM: Would have been ‘horrible mistake’ to escalate against Hezbollah in Oct. 2023, as Gallant had proposed
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleLazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
Speaking to the friendly Channel 14 network, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that there were only around 150 booby-trapped beepers in Hezbollah hands in October 2023 “as opposed to thousands that we accumulated” in the ensuing months.
Netanyahu explains that he blocked then-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s October 11 proposal to take out Hezbollah’s rockets and leadership because it would be “a horrible mistake” to open a two-front war so soon after the Hamas attacks of October 7.
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