Naftali Bennett has rejected claims that airstrikes on Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp amounts to a war crime, writes ITV News' Rohit Kachroo.
ITV News' Global Security Editor Rohit Kachroo spoke with former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who says the IDF should continue their attacks until Hamas is 'eradicated'."The only genocide is Hamas' explicit goal of annihilating the Jewish state, destroying and killing all the Jews,” said Naftali Bennett when challenged by ITV News.is bending over backwards, way more than what international law says because we want to prevent any unnecessary deaths of civilians.
"The truth of the matter, unfortunately, is that they have tremendous support among the Gazan citizens. Now, that is not to say that we will attack those citizens. We won't, but I have to say... you're confusing the aggressor and the victim." "I think something is very wrong in some so-called progressive western values if people can, in any stretch of mind, justify what Hamas did.
He said he did not want to criticise the serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to the October 7 attacks.