A year after October 7, Netanyahu wants to defeat Israel’s “enemies”

While his country commemorates the Hamas attack this Monday, October 7, Benjamin Netanyahu does not intend to ease the pressure on the Gaza Strip or against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Israeli Prime Minister indeed promised on Sunday to defeat the “enemies” of Israel.

In Tel Aviv, hundreds of people also gathered on Sunday evening, lighting candles, praying around an improvised altar, in memory of their loved ones killed on October 7, 2023 in the unprecedented attack carried out by the movement. Palestinian Islamist against Israel.

New troops towards Gaza

After having weakened Hamas during its offensive launched in the Gaza Strip, in retaliation for this attack, the Israeli army shifted most of its operations to the northern front in mid-September, where Lebanese Hezbollah has been increasing ever since. a year of rocket fire towards Israel in support of Hamas.

But after a year of war which left tens of thousands dead and the failure of all attempts at mediation, the Israeli offensive also continues in the Gaza Strip, besieged and devastated, where the army announced on Sunday carry out operations in the North and deploy additional troops near Palestinian territory.

“It is together that we will fight and together we will win,” said Benjamin Netanyahu, visiting soldiers stationed in northern Israel, along the Lebanese border. “A year ago we suffered a terrible blow,” he recalled. “Over the next twelve months, we transformed reality from one extreme to the other. The whole world is amazed by the blows you deal to our enemies,” added the Prime Minister, who is due to deliver a speech to the nation this Monday.

Hamas applauds its “glorious” attack

The Israeli chief of staff, General Herzi Halevi, for his part declared that his country was waging “a long-term war” against Hamas and Hezbollah, affirming however that the armed wing of Hamas had been “defeated” .

Thousands of people also gathered in London and Paris to “not forget” the victims of October 7, while others across the world demonstrated their support for the Palestinians in Gaza but also in Lebanon. Hamas praised the “glorious” attack of October 7.

Our file on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

In Israel, the October 7 attack resulted in the deaths of 1,205 people, the majority civilians, according to official Israeli figures, including hostages who died or were killed in captivity in the Gaza Strip. Of the 251 people kidnapped, 97 are still hostages in Gaza, of whom 33 are considered dead. The Israeli offensive launched in retaliation on Gaza caused the deaths of 41,870 people, according to the latest report from the Hamas government’s Ministry of Health, whose data is considered reliable by the UN.