Israel’s response to the unprecedented and multi-pronged attack by Palestinian gunmen from the Gaza Strip will “change the Middle East,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today.
Netanyahu was speaking to mayors in southern border towns hit by the surprise attack, a statement from the prime minister’s office said, without providing further details.
Israel’s prime minister said: “I know you have been through terrible and difficult things. What Hamas will go through will be difficult and terrible! We are already in the middle of the campaign and we have just started it. Your leadership is very strong in these difficult days, it will take time, and a strong stance is required in the difficult days ahead.”
Netanyahu promised that “the state will do everything possible to help you all” and added that “we ask you to stay strong because we will change the Middle East. I embrace you and the residents, we are all together and we will defeat them with strength, with a lot of strength.”