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.
