Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined Israel’s successful hits against three Iranian proxy groups, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, as he warned Wednesday night that Israelis that there would be challenging times ahead.
“From the start of the war, I have clarified that we are in a battle against Iran’s axis of evil,” Netanyahu said.
“It’s an existential battle against a choking ring of terror and missiles that Iran is attempting to wring around our necks,” he said.
He noted that last week, in his address to Congress, he had highlighted Israel’s battle against these three Iranian proxies.
He outlined Israeli strikes against them in a short statement he delivered in the aftermath of the double killings of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah battalion commander killing of Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr.
No responsibility for Haniyeh elimination
Netanyahu did not take responsibility for Haniyeh’s assassination in Iran, widely believed to have been executed by Israel.
Instead, he focused on the killing earlier this month of the head of Hamas’s Al-Qassam brigade, Mohammed Deif, and the IDF attack on the Houthis. Netanyahu also referenced the killing of Shukr in Beirut on Tuesday.
“We close accounts against all those who harm us,” he said.
“There are challenging days ahead,” he warned.
“We are prepared for any scenario and will stand firm against any threat against us,” he said.
There is not a day that people do not say, “End the war, because we have achieved all that we can. I did not ced to those voices then and I do not ced to them now,” he said.
“If we had ceded to those voices, Israel would not have killed Def and Shukr, eliminated Hamas terror infrastructure, and seized control of the Philadelphi Corridor.
Netanyahu reiterated his determination to free the remaining 115 hostages, to return residents to the north and south, and to ensure that Gaza does not pose a threat to Israel.
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