Blaming the heroism of male and female fighters in the Israeli Defense Forces as well as all security personnel including those from the regular and reserve forces of the army and police, Shin Bet and Mossad, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said Monday that his government is "determined to complete the job" and liberate the remaining hostages from Gaza.
"We will end the war when we complete all the goals we set: overthrowing the evil rule of Hamas, returning all our abductees home – both the dead and the living, thwarting any future threat from Gaza to Israel, and returning our residents in the south and north safely to their homes," said Netanyahu at a special mourning meeting to mark the first anniversary of horrific attacks carried out by Hamas on October 7, last year, that took more than 1,200 innocent lives.
At the opening of the meeting, Israel's PM lit a candle in memory of the massacred as of and from October 2023, with the members of the government standing for a minute of silence.
"A year ago today, at 06:29 in the morning, Hamas terrorists launched a murderous surprise attack against the State of Israel, against its citizens". Shortly after this massacre, I said in a rally in Tel Aviv: 'We are at war. Not in an operation, not in rounds – in a war. We will fight back with a force the enemy has never known, and exact a price from him that he has never known. We are at war and we will win it,'\" Netanyahu said at the beginning of his address.
He says that, since that very black day on October 7, 2023, Israel has been fighting the war of its existence – "the war of resurrection" – as he would like to call it officially.
Since that black day, we are under attack on seven fronts. Our counter-attack on our enemies in Iran's axis of evil is a necessary condition for securing our future and ensuring our security… The October 7 massacre was the most horrific attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust. But unlike in the Holocaust – we rose up against our enemies and fought a fierce war," Netanyahu said.
Speaking to pay tributes to the IDF heroes fallen at Gaza, Lebanon, and in other arenas, he stated that it was because of their sacrifice that Israel was able to destroy the enemy's capabilities and free many hostages.
And, we are determined to complete the job. We will send a prayer for the peace of our wounded heroes, and we will express gratitude from the bottom of our hearts for the heroism of our female and male fighters in the IDF and the security forces. They are the ones who stand as a protective wall between the evil of our enemies and the good of our people and our country.
They claim that more than 100 hostages remain in Gaza from over eight different nations.
"We are changing the security reality in our region; for the sake of our children, for the sake of our future, to ensure that what happened on the seventh of October will not happen again. Never again," Netanyahu said as he closed his speech.
The Israeli PM and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon lit candles earlier today at the 'Iron Swords' monument to the victims who lost their life from Jerusalem on October 7.
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