Netanyahu: Israel paid ‘heartbreaking’ price in its war on Gaza
After the Israeli army announced that eight of its soldiers were killed in southern Gaza’s Rafah today, the Israeli prime minister issued a video statement via X.
- We paid a heartbreaking price in our just war.
- We fight to preserve our existence and our future, and we fight to recover those who were kidnapped.
- Our brutal enemy has no intention of stopping, but rather wants to continue trying to annihilate us, so there is no alternative to victory.
- We are at the height of a difficult war on many fronts, including international forums, and we face many challenges ahead.
- Despite the destabilizing price, we will adhere to the war goals of eliminating Hamas and returning the kidnapped, and so that Gaza will not pose a threat again.
Israel’s war on Gaza, now eight months old, has, as of today, killed at least 37,296 people and wounded 85,197.
So much projection, you are the brutal enemy with no intention of ever stopping, trying to erase Palestine since the 1920's.
You can't preserve your existence as brutal oppressor running a fascist apartheid state. It's time Israel advances into the 20th century. 19th century settler colonialism has been put in the past for good reason and certainly doesn't belong in the 21st century.
Soldiers killed are ‘a heavy price to pay’, say Israeli officials
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that this is a heavy price to pay, but it should not divert away from the fact that Israel still has to achieve all of its goals in this war.
Nearly nine months into this deadly war in Gaza, the Israeli army has not achieved any of these goals. They have not released all of the remaining Israeli captives. They have not ensured that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel. And they have not dismantled Hamas’s military and political capabilities.
We also heard from Israel’s opposition leader, Yair Lapid, who essentially emphasised the same thought: That this is a heavy price to pay, and that this is a war that is going to experience losses.
We’re hearing from a wide variety of people at this hour that the Hostage and Missing Families Forum, that group’s spokesperson, has said that Israel cannot win in Gaza against Hamas. And we also heard from one Israeli captive who was released by the Israeli army in what they called a rescue mission that killed nearly 300 Palestinians, calling on the Israeli government to enter into a deal. The demands from protesters are becoming much more severe.
Israeli army announces death of additional soldier
Israeli media outlet Ynet, citing the army’s spokesperson, reports that a 19-year-old sergeant succumbed to wounds he received in an explosion in southern Gaza’s Rafah on Monday.
In the incident in which he received the wounds, an officer and three other soldiers were killed, the spokesperson added.
