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From the Liveblog of
Sunday, July 28, 2024
From the Liveblog of
Sunday, July 28, 2024
‘This has gone on for too long’: Gantz visits Majdal Shams following deadly Hezbollah strike
National Unity leader Benny Gantz meets with Druze community leaders in Majdal Shams following a deadly Hezbollah strike that killed at least 12 people, most of them children or teens, on July 27, 2024. (Office of Benny Gantz)
National Unity party leader Benny Gantz visited Majdal Shams after the deadly Hezbollah attack on the Druze town, his office says in a statement, where he paid a condolence call to Mayor Dolan Abu Saleh and community leader Sheikh Muafak Tarif.
He was accompanied by National Unity MK Michael Biton, former MK Mufid Mari and Golan Regional Council head Uri Kellner.
Israel has a “moral obligation in the south to bring home the hostages, and we have a strategic obligation to restore security to the north and the people to their homes,” he told the Druze community leaders. “This has gone on for too long.”
