Israel will win, Netanyahu tells troops amid plan to retaliate Iran strike

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Sunday vowed to achieve victory and said his country’s military “completely transformed reality” in the year since Hamas’s October 7 attack, which has left the country fighting two wars.

Netanyahu told troops Israel “will win” as it battles militants in both the Gaza Strip and Lebanon and prepares to strike Iran, about a year since the unprecedented attack by Palestinian Hamas militants sparked the Gaza war.

Israel’s army chief, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi said that, one year on, “we have defeated the military wing of Hamas”.

Netanyahu had pledged to “crush… and destroy” the militants as fighting began last October, but troops have returned to several areas across Gaza where they had previously conducted operations against Hamas, only to find militants regrouping.