Gantz Apologizes for Civilian Deaths in Iran and Gaza

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00:00So you resigned from Netanyahu's government amid the months-long assault on Gaza.

00:06Do you support Israel's attacks on Iran?

00:09And I just want to say to you, according to official figures,

00:13around 606 civilians have died in Iran since the 13th of June,

00:22since Israel launched their attacks on the country.

00:26Yes, but I'm very sorry for every civilian, Iranian civilian, that was killed,

00:34just as I'm very sorry for every citizen in Gaza who is being killed.

00:40But this is not because we are seeking to kill civilians.

00:43This is because we have to go after military or operational targets,

00:49and those are embedded into civilian society,

00:51and that's the result of what happened, unfortunately, in Gaza.

00:57You know, if you talk about damages, surrounding damages in military operations around the world,

01:06Israel is achieving the highest ratio, I would say, of kind of one-to-one,

01:14which, professionally speaking, considers to be a good operational ratio.

01:19But, once again, I'm very, very sorry for every loss of life which is unnecessary.

01:26We could take all those tons of dollars that went to terror organizations,

01:32that went to build those nuclear sites, that went to build those ballistic missiles

01:36that threatened the entire continent, or half this continent of Europe,

01:40and invest them in science, in education, in health system.

01:48I think the Iranian people themselves should be getting those kind of things

01:54much more than the attempts that the Iranian regime have done outside Iran itself.

02:01So, yes, I'm very sorry for every civilian who's being killed,

02:06but if it comes to a point where we have to act, then we have to act.