Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back on Wednesday against mounting international criticism over Israel’s strike against Hamas leaders in Qatar the previous day, and compared the operation to US actions in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, despite the strike ostensibly failing to kill any of its intended targets.
The premier took a defiant tone in an English-language video defending Israel’s actions, and warned Qatar that either it must “expel” the Hamas politburo members or “bring them to justice, because if you don’t, we will.”
Comparing the Hamas-led assault of October 7, 2023, to the September 11 attacks — the anniversary of which is on Thursday — in which close to 3,000 people were killed when four planes were hijacked by al-Qaeda terrorists, Netanyahu said that Israel “remember[s]October 7,” when “Islamist terrorists committed the worst savagery against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.”
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