Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday (February 7th) promised a "
response
" following new revelations of large-scale hacking by the Israeli police of the phones of public figures and journalists using Pegasus software.
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“
We will not leave this unanswered.
The alleged facts are very serious
,” he said in a statement, however, considering that the Pegasus software was an “
important tool in the fight against terrorism
”.