Netanyahu emphasizes that the Hamas tunnels were destroyed, some 1,000 fighters killed “including very senior commanders,” and many terror targets and rockets were destroyed.
Iron Dome and other measures prevented Hamas’s planned “mass killings of Israeli civilians,” he says.
Israel withdrew the troops from Gaza once the goals of the ground offensive were achieved to prevent Hamas from harming or kidnapping our soldiers, he says.
He adds that Hamas has sustained a massive military and diplomatic blow.
The prime minister details the Hamas demands — airport, seaport, prisoner releases, Qatari and Turkish mediation, salaries and money transfers — and repeats that “it did not get any of its demands.”
Israel was always ready to support the humanitarian rehabilitation of Gaza, provided it oversaw material entering the Strip, and that’s what will happen.
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