The second stage of the war against Hamas has begun, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Saturday. That appears to mean a sustained ground invasion of Gaza, the.
The second stage of the war against Hamas has begun, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Saturday. That appears to mean a sustained ground invasion of Gaza, the New York Times reports, though Netanyahu didn’t put it that way. He said at a news conference that Israeli forces had entered Gaza on Friday evening. With Minister Benny Gantz and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at his side, the prime minister declared Israel is fighting “our second war of independence”—an allusion, per CNN, to the war sparked when five Arab nations attacked after Israel declared its sovereignty in 1948. This war will be long and difficult, he warned Israelis.
