IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevy said today in a speech to the air force that "we have an obligation to fight and also to risk our lives so that they [residents of the envelope] can return to live there safely, and we have abductees and we will do everything to bring them home."
Halevi also said things Defense Minister Yoav Galant said on the eve of the ceasefire, about the continuation of the fighting immediately after it. "We don't intend to, we don't want to, we don't want to, we won't stop this effort before we bring back all the abductees because really every one of them is ours, we have a supreme moral obligation to bring them back."
Regarding the ceasefire, the chief of staff said: "We are taking advantage of the pause we have now to learn, to better prepare our capabilities and also to get some rest, and we will return immediately at the end of the ceasefire to attack in Gaza, to maneuver in Gaza, we will do it also in order to dismantle Hamas, also to create very great pressure in order to return as quickly and as many abductees as possible. To the last of them, and dismantle Hamas:.
On the return of the abductees from Hamas captivity, he said: "Yesterday, we completed the first group of women and children who returned. Today, in just a few hours, I hope that a second group will arrive, a ceasefire that would not have happened in this agreement without the pressure exerted by the entire IDF. Everyone contributes his part to the war."
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