Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the country’s military has “completely transformed reality” in the year since Hamas’s October 7 attack, which left the country fighting two wars.
Israel “will win”, Netanyahu said as he visited a military base on the northern border close to a week after the IDF began its ground campaign in Southern Lebanon, reported Jerusalem Post.
“I am here with IDF soldiers at the northern border,” Netanyahu said on Sunday as he spoke with soldiers from the 36th Division.
“A few meters from here are their friends across the border, dismantling the terrorist infrastructure that Hezbollah prepared to attack our [border] communities,” he said. “A year ago, we suffered a terrible blow,” said the Israeli PM referring to the October 7 Hamas attack in southern Israel last year.
“In the past 12 months, we are changing the reality from end to end,” he said, adding, “The whole world laughs at the blows you inflict on our enemies.” Together we will fight, and together we will win – with God’s help,” he added.
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Israeli army chief Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi said one year on, they “have defeated the military wing of Hamas.”
Meanwhile, on Sunday the Palestinian militant group, Hamas called the October 7 attack “glorious” adding that the Palestinians were “writing a new history with their resistance”.
Despite consistent international calls to de-escalate tensions and Israel fighting wars in two countries, Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant declared that all options were open for retaliation against arch-enemy Iran.
On Sunday, Gallant said Israel would decide independently how to respond to Iran even though it was closely coordinating with longtime ally the U.S.
“Everything is on the table,” told CNN. “Israel has capabilities to hit targets near and far — we have proved it.”
While US President Joe Biden said his administration would not support strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, he said last week that Israeli attacks on Iran’s oil facilities were being discussed.