Iran Netanyahu: Israel faces "challenging days" ahead
Following threats from Iran and its allies, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sworn his people in for "challenging days". "We are prepared for every scenario and will stand united against all threats," Netanyahu said after a meeting of the Israeli security cabinet at military headquarters in Tel Aviv.
31.07.2024, 19:58
SDA
"Israel will demand a high price for any aggression against us, from any front." The war will continue and will demand stamina from Israeli citizens, the head of government explained.
Following the targeted killing of a high-ranking leader of the Islamist Hamas, Iran and Hamas are threatening Israel with retaliation. According to Hamas, its foreign leader Ismail Hanija was killed in an Israeli attack in Tehran. The government in Jerusalem has not yet commented on this.
The news of Haniya's killing came just a few hours after an Israeli air strike on a suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut, in which, according to the Israeli army, Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah commander, was killed. Two of the organizations' most influential men in its fight against Israel are now dead.
"Since the beginning of the war, I have declared that we are fighting the Iranian axis of evil," said Netanyahu. "This is a fight for survival against a ring of terror armies and missiles that Iran wants to tighten around our necks." The main players in this are Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthi in Yemen. Israel has recently dealt all three actors hard blows. "We will settle the score with anyone who harms us."
