00:00As we stand on the eve of this somber October 7th, we pause to remember with profound grief and deep
00:04aching pain our heroes who fell in the war of revival and our dear brothers and sisters who were lost
00:09in the horrific, unthinkable massacre throughout the Gaza envelope.
00:13We remember the innocent women, men, children and tiny babies who were brutally murdered and burned alive by those Hamas
00:19monsters.
00:20Over the course of the last three years, we have successfully managed to eliminate 4,000 out of a total
00:25of 6,000 of these vile monsters.
00:27Not a single one of them possesses any form of immunity.
00:29We will eventually reach every single one of them and the reign of Hamas in Gaza will be completely and
00:33utterly defeated.
00:34During these same three years, two significant things have occurred.
00:37First, we have completely turned the tables.
00:39The state of Israel is now the strongest and most powerful country in the Middle East.
00:43Our enemies are weaker than they have ever been.
00:45Second, in these past three years, the revival region has finally come back to life.
00:5090% of the residents returned to their homes and many others joined them.
00:55There is a huge construction and rehabilitation momentum in the Gaza envelope, in the cities, in the kibbutzim and moshavim.
01:02Young couples come there to start new lives and this is the victory of spirit over evil, Israel's victory over
01:09its enemies.
01:10The exact same thing is happening in the north as well.
01:14It is precisely because Hamas is so weak that they will try to challenge us with the remainder of their
01:19strength as we approach the elections, hoping to influence the results.
01:22We are fully prepared for this.
01:24We will respond.
01:25First and foremost, we will thwart such attempts.
01:27And in any case, we will respond to this with overwhelming force, should they choose to make that mistake.
01:32I say to all our enemies, look at what we did to you on seven fronts in the war of
01:36revival.
01:36Do not dare to mess with us.
01:58He did not whisper it.
02:00He did not hint at it.
02:02He said it out loud, on camera, at a conference, in a settlement.
02:07Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just handed the world a map of exactly what Israel intends to do with Gaza.
02:14And the numbers he used tell you everything.
02:1850%.
02:18Then 60%.
02:20Now the order is 70%.
02:22And nobody in that room asked him where it ends.
02:25Here is what happened.
02:27Speaking at a conference held in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank,
02:31Netanyahu laid out Israel's territorial progress inside Gaza in cold, clinical terms.
02:37His words, captured on video and aired by Israel's Channel 12, were precise.
02:43He said,
02:44We are currently squeezing Hamas.
02:47We now control 60% of the territory in the Strip.
02:50You know, we were at 50.
02:52We moved to 60.
02:54My directive is to move to 70%.
02:57Squeezing.
02:58That is the word he chose.
03:00Not liberating, not securing.
03:03Squeezing.
03:04And that one word, combined with those numbers, paints a picture that the Arab world, Hamas, and international observers are
03:12now scrambling to process.
03:14Because here is what those numbers actually mean on the ground.
03:1860% of Gaza is not a buffer zone.
03:21It is not a temporary military corridor.
03:23It is more than half of an entire territory with over 2 million people now under direct Israeli military control,
03:32despite a ceasefire that technically came into effect in October.
03:36Let that contradiction sit for a moment.
03:39There is a ceasefire, and Israel controls 60% of the land.
03:43And the Prime Minister just ordered that number to go higher.
03:47So what is the endgame?
03:49Netanyahu did not say 100% out loud on Thursday.
03:53But the progression he described, 50 to 60 to 70, is not a strategy with a stopping point built in.
04:00It is a creeping annexation, framed as a military operation.
04:05And the location where he set it matters enormously.
04:09He was not at the Knesset.
04:10He was not in Tel Aviv.
04:12He was speaking at a conference in a West Bank settlement.
04:15The same kind of settlement that the international community has spent decades calling illegal.
04:21The symbolism was not accidental.
04:24This is a man telling his base, his ideological base, exactly what he is doing and daring the world to
04:31stop him.
04:32The reaction from the Arab world has been immediate and furious.
04:37Hamas called it proof of what they have always said.
04:39That Israel's goal was never about hostages or security.
04:43It was always about the land.
04:46Humanitarian agencies are sounding fresh alarms tonight.
04:49Aid organizations have been warning for months that civilian conditions in Gaza are catastrophic.
04:55Now, with Israel signaling a deeper and longer military hold over the territory,
05:01those warnings are getting louder and more desperate.
05:04And internationally, the questions are piling up.
05:08What happens to the ceasefire?
05:10What happens to the people and the 60% already under IDF control?
05:14And when Israel reaches 70%, what comes next?
05:18The answer, if you follow the math Netanyahu himself laid out, is obvious.
05:23The next number is not hard to guess.
05:26And tonight, for the first time, an Israeli prime minister said it quietly,
05:31but clearly enough for the whole world to hear.
05:34Gaza is not a battlefield anymore.
05:37It is being turned into a possession.
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