By Sumayya
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday promised there would be no Hamas power in Gaza as he joined a memorial event marking three years since the fighter group’s October 7, 2023 attack.
Monday remains a national phase of remembrance for the deadliest day in Israel’s history, with flags lowered halfway down on public buildings from 6:29 am, the time the strike launched.
Speaking during a state ceremony at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Netanyahu expressed “we have gained massive achievements, but there remain yet missions in front of us, and we plan to complete them”.
“There will be no Hamas power in Gaza,” he supplemented, promising to keep focusing on anyone who stood mixed in the strike or who kept prisoners.
The Hamas-led strike caused the deaths of 1,221 populations, according to an AFP count built on official Israeli numbers. Fighters likewise dragged 251 prisoners into Gaza, 44 of them already dead.
In answer, Israel launched a massive military campaign that has killed more than 74,200 populations in Gaza, according to the area’s health ministry, which runs under Hamas power and whose numbers remain viewed as correct by the United Nations.
Since a pause in fighting stood declared last October, Israeli units have killed more than 1,440 populations in Gaza, according to the ministry.
Plans for Gaza’s post-war control have launched to take form, but the topic stays largely unsettled in reality.
Since Hamas’s October 2023 strike, Israel has fought wars on multiple fronts, including against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.
During his talk on Monday, Netanyahu likewise promised to keep hitting Hezbollah to “build an opening for peace with a land whose populations, for the most part, want peace with us”.
Netanyahu likewise spoke against the religious leadership in Iran, where Israel and the United States launched a shared strike on February 28, starting the Middle East war.
“We will not permit the ayatollah power in Tehran to danger our life,” Netanyahu expressed, adding the Iranian leadership stood “weaker than it has been since its start”.
