Netanyahu says Israel can't accept current situation on Lebanon border
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu overnight reiterated that Israel is determined to return its northern residents to their homes, adding that this would be possible through a “diplomatic agreement” or “military” action.
Netanyahu also reminisced over Israel’s withdrawal from south Lebanon in the year 2000 to defend his decision not to pull out from Gaza’s Philadelphi corridor.
“We left south Lebanon in the past and now we are facing hundreds of rockets. We should have returned with the first rocket that was fired on us from there,” he said.
He added: “We must change the situation on the northern border and we will do so. We destroyed all the drones that were launched by Hezbollah in our preemptive attack on it and we cannot accept the continuation of the current situation in the north.”
Source: Naharnet
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