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Benjamin Netanyahu Launches Likud Campaign In Tel Aviv, Vows To Topple Iran Regime And Destroy Hezbollah, Hamas
Netanyahu launched the Likud campaign in Tel Aviv with a security-focused speech. He vowed to topple the Iranian regime, eliminate Hamas, and confront Hezbollah.
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Likud campaign and Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched the Likud Party’s election campaign in Tel Aviv on Thursday, centering his speech on security and promising to continue Israeli military operations in Iran, Lebanon, Syria, and the Gaza Strip.
“Netanyahu launched the Likud Party’s election campaign in Tel Aviv on Thursday”
Netanyahu told supporters, “The mission must be completed. We must topple the Iranian regime and fully destroy Hezbollah and Hamas,” and he framed the Gaza war as part of that endgame.
He also said, “In the Gaza Strip, we are witnessing a phenomenon that I think surprises everyone,” while insisting that Israel was “closing in on Hamas” rather than leaving it “protected.”
The campaign launch came as Netanyahu faced criticism over the war on Gaza, and the sources describe his security message as a direct response to that political pressure.
Threats and political framing
In the same campaign push, Netanyahu repeated the refrain that he has “changed the face of the Middle East,” promising new geopolitical transformations without disclosing details.
He accused opponents of seeking “regional concessions” in exchange for peace, asserting that Israeli forces’ presence in Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza reflects a shift from “giving land” to “taking land.”
Netanyahu also vowed that “We will eliminate Hamas, and first and foremost we will defeat the regime in Iran. We will bring it down. It will fall,” linking the Gaza conflict to a broader confrontation with Tehran.
A separate report quoting Netanyahu at a ceremony honoring Israel Security Agency employees at the President’s Residence similarly stressed that “We are settling accounts with these murderers who murdered our people, our daughters, our wives and our children on October 7,” and said “not many” Hamas members remain.
Opposition, elections, and Gaza stakes
The campaign launch is set against an election scheduled for October 27, with sources describing a closely contested race between Likud and the bloc led by Benny Gantz, head of the Yesh Atid party.
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Courrier international reports that to defeat Netanyahu, the Israeli opposition needs Arab votes, and it says a meeting between Gadi Eisenkot and Bedouin lawmakers from northern Israel brought the issue back to the center of the campaign.
In that reporting, Eisenkot’s denial is direct: “It’s an outright lie,” he stated, after a mayor in Tuba-Zangariyye in Upper Galilee said Eisenkot had pledged to approach Mansour Abbas of the Raam Arab party.
Jaridat al-Quds frames the stakes for the Gaza war trajectory and the future front with Lebanon as tied to who wins the election, while also noting Netanyahu’s legal challenge as the first Israeli prime minister to be prosecuted on charges related to corruption and bribery during his tenure.