Netanyahu: The fight is not over, there are enemies trying to rearm

Israel remains “absolutely committed to bringing backmost each past hostage” portion completing each the objectives of the warfare successful Gaza and continuing the conflict against Iran and Tehran-backed organizations, Benjamin Netanyahu made clear, speaking astatine the October 7 commemoration ceremonial connected Mount Herzl.

“The conflict is not over. But 1 happening is wide today: whoever raises a manus against america already knows that helium volition wage a precise dense terms for his aggression,” Netanyahu warned. “We are determined to implicit the triumph that volition signifier the people of our lives for galore years to come.”
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Addressing the families of the victims, the premier curate acknowledged “the magnitude of their suffering” and expressed the nation’s gratitude to each the soldiers who fought: “Jews, Druze, Christians, Muslims, Bedouins, Circassians and members of different communities” who stood “side by broadside to execute each the aims of the war.”

Responding to planetary accusations of “genocide” successful Gaza, Netanyahu argued that the word “corresponds much intimately to what Israel suffered connected October 7.” As helium said, “on that time we received a shocking illustration of the conception of ‘genocide’ – not an imaginary one, specified arsenic the 1 hurled astatine america done anti-Semitic lies, but the existent one.”

“If these murderers could, they would person slaughtered america all,” helium said, referring to the Hamas terrorists. “This is the existent look of genocide,” helium added, noting that the onslaught revealed the intent of “the authorities of Iran and its allies to strangle Israel successful a rhythm of murderous fire.”

Netanyahu stressed that the enemies “did not cipher the powerfulness that lies wrong us” and stressed that “Israel stood up arsenic 1 body.” “We took the conflict to the enemy’s territory and deed him with crushing blows,” helium said.

He called Israel “a obstruction against the forces of demolition of extremist Islam” and praised the country’s subject arsenic “the protective partition that separates america from them.” He said the soldiers “fought with ultimate heroism and awesome ingenuity.”

“From the vale of tears of October 7, we reached Mount Hermon, the skies of Tehran and the touching clasp of the families of the hostages with their loved ones,” helium said.

Continuing his speech, Netanyahu said that arsenic the warfare successful Gaza draws to a close, “great challenges and important opportunities for bid prevarication ahead.” Referring to the successes of the equipped forces, helium noted that “great threats stay from enemies seeking to rearm,” making an indirect notation to the Iranian regime, whose atomic facilities were deed by an Israeli onslaught successful June.

“Great challenges, but besides large opportunities for widening the ellipse of peace,” helium stressed, expressing optimism astir the continuation of normalization agreements with Arab countries aft the extremity of the war.

In closing, Netanyahu stressed the request for nationalist unity: “We are acting simultaneously connected 2 levels – warfare and peace. And what is required successful some is unity: unity successful warfare and unity successful peace. We volition execute each our goals lone done interior cohesion, communal work and strengthening the ties that unite america alternatively of dividing us.”