Status: 14.10.2023, 20:01 PM
By: Bettina Menzel
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the border area with the Gaza Strip on Saturday and prepared his soldiers for the "next level". The news ticker.
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Be'eri – For the first time since the massacre by the Islamist Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to the border area with the Gaza Strip on Saturday. The head of government had visited Kibbutz Be'eri and Kfar Aza to get an idea of the destroyed houses after the "terrible massacre", it was said from his office after the visit. "Are you ready for the next stage?" Netanyahu asked the soldiers present, according to a report in the Jerusalem Post, adding, "The next stage is coming."
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, speaks with members of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during his visit to Kibbutz Be'eri and Kibbutz Kfar Aza. © Avi Ohayon/GPO/+++ dpa-Bildfunk +++
Netanyahu visits soldiers in the border area with Gaza – "next stage" in the Israeli war is imminent
The fact that the head of government had not yet traveled to the area on the border with the Gaza Strip since the terrorist attack had provoked some criticism in Israel. Earlier, the Prime Minister had already announced that the war would take time and would be difficult. Observers interpreted this as preparing the public for a ground offensive by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip. "We are all ready," Netanyahu wrote about the visit on Platform X (formerly Twitter).
The terrorist organization Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel last Saturday, killing over 1300,150 people, most of them civilians. The terrorists also abducted about 2200 people from Israel to the Gaza Strip. In response to the Hamas attack, the Israeli army continued to fire on the Gaza Strip. On the Palestinian side, at least <>,<> people have been killed so far, according to the health ministry led by the radical Islamic Hamas on Saturday.