JERUSALEM: Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday hailed Israel’s 11-day bombardment of Palestinian armed forces in Gaza as a”outstanding success”, following a ceasefire to end the fatal conflict occurred effect. “We reached our goals from the surgery,” Netanyahu said of this effort mainly targeted at Hamas, the Islamist group that regulates Gaza, along with Islamic Jihad, the 2nd largest armed group from the enclave. Even the hawkish premier stated”the public does not know what” regarding Israel’s profits from the surgery”and does Hamas.” Gaza’s health ministry has set the death toll in Israel’s air strikes in 243. Netanyahu said Israel’s strikes had killed”over 200 terrorists” from Gaza, for example 25 older commanders. Defence Union Benny Gantz included that Israel’s performance followed programs that’d”been ready for months and years”. “The military action is all finished. Now’s time for political activity.” Even the pre-dawn ceasefire brokered by Egypt and consented by Israel, Hamas and Islamic Jihad seemed to be holding Friday. Egypt has said that it will monitor the truce. Gantz cautioned Hamas it’d cover a”heavy, really heavy” cost if it violated the ceasefire. Israel started its effort in Gaza on May 10 in reaction to Hamas firing rockets in Jerusalem, after weeks of construction tensions between Israeli forces and Palestinians from town. In total, Allied groups fired over 4,000 rockets in Israel, murdering 12 people.
Benjamin Netanyahu hails Gaza Performance as’exceptional Achievement’
