Israeli President Isaac Herzog defended Israel's right to defend itself during a fiery news conference on Thursday, pushing back against criticism.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog defended his country’s attack on Hamas during a fiery news conference Thursday, saying Israel was 'fighting terror' and that they would spare no expense in eliminating those who committed the worst attack on Israel in its 75-year history. 'We are fighting terror,' Herzog said. 'Humanity has to decide: are we accommodating terror or are we fighting terror? We saw the worst atrocities possible.
Militants in Gaza are holding an estimated 150 people taken hostage from Israel — soldiers, men, women, children and older adults — and they have fired thousands of rockets into Israel over the past five days. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Hamas terrorists, who were responsible for Saturday’s massacre, have engaged in atrocities, including binding boys and girls and shooting them in the head, burning people alive, raping women and beheading soldiers.
The 2.3 million residents of Gaza are densely packed into a strip of land only 25 miles long. Israel has halted the entry of food, water, fuel and medicine into the territory, with Herzog saying this will continue until the hostages are released. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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