Wed 11 October 2023:
Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the nation alongside the opposition party leader, Benny Gantz, after the pair agreed to form an emergency government to direct war against Hamas.
A new war cabinet has been formed, consisting of Netanyahu, Gantz, and Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant. During the fighting with Hamas, the emergency government will not take up any unrelated policy or laws, Netanyahu and Gantz said in a joint statement.
Netanyahu said they had put aside their differences “because the fate of our state is on the line”. Speaking alongside Gantz and Gallant, he compared the attack by Hamas with brutal killings carried out by Islamic State.
Gantz, a former Israeli defence chief and general, said it was a time to join together and win as the country faces “one of the toughest hours” it has ever known.
There is a time for peace and a time for war. Now is a time for war.
Gallant described the Hamas attack as “the worst terror attack the world has ever seen”. “There’s no situation in which you kill Israeli kids and we go about our business,” he added.
We will wipe this thing called Hamas, ISIS-Gaza, off the face of the earth. It will cease to exist.
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