“We will wipe out this thing called Hamas,” Gallant said in the Wednesday evening press conference. “Hamas — the Islamic State of Gaza — will be wiped from the face of the earth. It will not continue to exist. There will be no situation in which Israeli children are murdered and we all go about our business.”
Gallant described the Hamas onslaught as “the worst terror attack the world has ever seen.” And he cited “children bound together and murdered, people burned, barbaric deeds that the Jewish people has not suffered since 1945.”
Speaking just before him, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also described the horrific killings and vowed that “every Hamas member is a dead man.”
Said Netanyahu: “We saw the wild animals. We saw the barbarians that we are facing. We saw a cruel enemy. An enemy worse than ISIS. We saw boys and girls, bound, shot in the head. Men and women burned alive. Young women raped and slaughtered. Fighters decapitated… In one place, they set fire to tires around them, and burned them alive.” READ MORE
