00:00and demilitarizing Gaza.
00:05Citizens of Israel, my brothers and sisters.
00:10Absolute victory rests on three things.
00:13The return of all our hostages.
00:15Disarming Hamas and demilitarizing Gaza.
00:20Only then can we ensure Gaza will never threaten Israel again.
00:25Yesterday, we completed the sacred mission of bringing...
00:30...back all our hostages.
00:35Now, I hear many saying, with endless emotion,
00:38it's unbelievable we brought Ron...
00:40...in any Gabay home.
00:42But it is believable.
00:46I did believe.
00:47I believed we would bring everyone back.
00:50I believed it even when, at the...
00:55...war's outset, a senior security official said,
00:58and I quote,
00:59...we must get you...
01:00...to the fact that we may not see even one hostage return to Israel.
01:05I believed it even when they told me,
01:09...prime...
01:10...in minister,
01:10...you must stop the war,
01:12...you must leave Gaza,
01:13...you must concede to Hamas...
01:15...otherwise we simply won't see the hostages again.
01:20...but I believed differently.
01:23I believed that, through...
01:25...combined military and diplomatic pressure,
01:27...we could,
01:28...and we would,
01:29...bring all our...
01:30...our hostages home.
01:35...because what matters in war,
01:37...what matters more than anything else,
01:39...is to...
01:40...nor the background noise,
01:41...to stand firm against internal and external pressures,
01:44...to...
01:45...understand what needs to be done,
01:47...and strive with all our might to do it,
01:49...to achieve the goal.
01:55Over the past two years,
01:58...I have met,
01:59...dozens of times,
02:00...with the families of the hostages,
02:02...and these were heartbreaking meetings.
02:05A family comes to you,
02:09...shows...
02:10...a picture of their son,
02:11...or husband,
02:12...or daughter.
02:15...or brother,
02:17...and says to me,
02:18...Prime Minister,
02:19...Prime...
02:20...Promise me.
02:22...You just wait till I bring him or her back.
02:25...and I look them in the eye and say,
02:29...I...
02:30...I promise.
02:32...Swear.
02:34...I swear.
02:35...I swear I'll bring him or her back to you.
02:40...and that's what we did.
02:43Thanks to the wise de-
02:45...decisions we made,
02:46...thanks to our heroic soldiers and commanders in regular army,
02:49...Kur...
02:50...severe army,
02:50...reserves,
02:51...thanks to the sacrifice of the fallen,
02:54...thanks to the immense...
02:55...courage of those wounded in body and soul,
02:57...thanks to all of them,
02:58...we did it.
03:00...we completed the mission.
03:05Yesterday we brought home the heroic police officer,
03:08...Rami Gavrielli.
03:10...Rami went out first and Rami came back last.
03:13...and even though he was wounded,
03:15...in his shoulder,
03:16...he bravely charged into the inferno in the Gaza envelope.
03:20He was wounded in battle,
03:21...but he kept fighting and he saved many lives.
03:25...he killed 14 terrorists,
03:29...fought to-
03:30...his last bullet,
03:31...fought till the terrorists overwhelmed him.
03:35...but they didn't break his spirit.
03:39Generations will-
03:40...draw inspiration from Rami Gavrielli,
03:42...hero of Israel,
03:43...and from all our other heroes.
03:45...whose greatness is revealed in all its glory
03:47...in the war of independence.
03:50This is the generation of heroism,
03:52...this is the generation of victory.
03:55I thank my colleagues in the government for their backing and support.
04:00...including Minister Ron Dermer for his important contribution to the return of the hostages.
04:05...his important contribution against lies and slander about abandoning hostages.
04:10I thank the coordinator for-
04:15...their prisoners and the missing Gal Hirsch,
04:17...who also did a wonderful job against slander.
04:20...and insinuations and simply breathed a different spirit as we continue to work.
04:25...I thank our soldiers in the IDF,
04:29...shin bed.
04:30...and the Israeli police,
04:31...President Trump and his staff,
04:33...and thank you,
04:34...Israeli-
04:35...for your steadfast support throughout this campaign.
04:40Now we are focusing on completing the two remaining tasks,
04:44...disarming...
04:45...Hamas and demilitarizing Gaza of weapons and tunnels.
04:50...as I agreed with President Trump,
04:54...and you've heard-
04:55...it many times from him too,
04:57...there are only two options.
04:58Either it will be done the easier-
05:00...way or the hard-
05:01...way but either way it will happen.
05:05...I hear now that we will allow the rebuilding of Gaza-
05:10...before disarmament.
05:12...that won't happen.
05:13...I hear we'll bring-
05:15...Turkish and Qatari soldiers to Gaza.
05:17...that won't happen either.
05:19...I hear I'm a-
05:20...establishing a Palestinian state in Gaza.
05:22...that didn't happen and won't happen.
05:25...I think you all know that who stopped the establishment of a Palestinian state again-
05:30...and again was me, along with my friends and the governments I led.
05:35...today and after, we will not allow it.
05:37...Israel will maintain security control over the-
05:40...entire area from the Jordan River to the sea, and that is also true for the Gaza Strip.
05:45...I want to say to you, citizens of Israel-
05:50...in the War of Independence, we achieved great things together.
05:55...we hit Iran hard, we hit Iran's terror proxy hard.
06:00Now that's right, the Iranian Axis is trying to recover, but we will not allow it to-
06:05...do so.
06:07...if Iran makes the grave mistake and-
06:10...attacks Israel, we will respond with a force Iran has never seen.
06:15...and I want to say one more thing to you.
06:20Yesterday, I attended the second anti-Semitism conference, a vital event-
06:25...thanks to MK.
06:29...Shakli.
06:30...it's especially crucial given the surging anti-Semitism sweeping many nations.
06:34...I said that-
06:35...there.
06:39...we're seeing a-
06:40...we're seeing a massive shift in our lifetime.
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