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Netanyahu Says Israel ‘Will Continue to Fight’ Its Enemies

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a discussion at the Israeli Parliament Knesset in Jerusalem July 17, 2024. (Reuters)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a discussion at the Israeli Parliament Knesset in Jerusalem July 17, 2024. (Reuters)
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Netanyahu Says Israel ‘Will Continue to Fight’ Its Enemies

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a discussion at the Israeli Parliament Knesset in Jerusalem July 17, 2024. (Reuters)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a discussion at the Israeli Parliament Knesset in Jerusalem July 17, 2024. (Reuters)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel “will continue to fight” against its enemies.

Netanyahu delivered a recorded message late Monday to a government memorial service marking the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks.

Israel responded to the attacks with a military offensive that has devastated Gaza and inflicted heavy losses on the Hamas militant group. US-led ceasefire efforts have repeatedly faltered, and Israel has now turned its focus to a ground offensive in Lebanon against the Iran-backed Hezbollah party.

“As long as the enemy threatens our existence and the peace of our country, we will continue to fight,” Netanyahu said. “As long as our hostages are in Gaza, we will continue to fight. We will not give up on any of them. I won’t give up.”

The government ceremony was prerecorded, and Netanyahu did not attend.

Families of people killed in the Oct. 7 attack, hostages and soldiers who died fighting Hamas held a separate ceremony earlier Monday, skipping the official ceremony in a show of anger against the government.

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UN Officials in Lebanon Call for Talks on Anniversary of Israel-Hezbollah Fighting

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on October 8, 2024. (AFP)
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on October 8, 2024. (AFP)
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UN Officials in Lebanon Call for Talks on Anniversary of Israel-Hezbollah Fighting

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on October 8, 2024. (AFP)
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on October 8, 2024. (AFP)

The UN special coordinator for Lebanon and the head of the peacekeeping force deployed along the border with Israel said that a negotiated solution is the only way to restore stability and the time to act is now.

The statement by Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert and Lt. Gen. Aroldo Lázaro of the UN Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) came on the first anniversary of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group starting attacks on Israeli military posts along the border in support of its Hamas allies in the Gaza Strip.

Over the past weeks, the exchanges along the border have expanded into Israeli airstrikes and Hezbollah missile attacks that are hitting deeper inside both countries. In Lebanon, more than 1 million people have been displaced and over 1,300 killed since mid-September.

Plasschaert and Lázaro said Hezbollah’s attacks starting on Oct. 8, 2023 were in violation of UN Security Council resolution 1701 that ended the 34-day Israel-Hezbollah war in 2006.

“Too many lives have been lost, uprooted, and devastated, while civilians on both sides of the Blue Line are left wanting for security and stability,” the statement said referring to the border line along the Lebanon-Israel border.

“Today, one year later, the near-daily exchanges of fire have escalated into a relentless military campaign whose humanitarian impact is nothing short of catastrophic,” the statement said.

It warned that further that further violence and destruction will neither solve the underlying issues nor make anyone safer in the long run.

“A negotiated solution is the only pathway to restore the security and stability that civilians on both sides so desperately want and deserve,” the statement said. “The time to act accordingly is now.”