Netanyahu, defense chiefs call operation ‘game-changing’ defeat of Hamas

“The public doesn’t know everything, Hamas doesn’t know everything, but all our achievements will be revealed over time.”

Operation Guardian of the Walls was a major blow to Hamas that will change the contours of the conflict for the years to come, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s top security officials said in a press conference on Friday, hours after the ceasefire ending the 11-day operation ended.

“The public doesn’t know everything, Hamas doesn’t know everything, but all our achievements will be revealed over time,” Netanyahu said. “At this time, I can say we did daring and innovative things.”

Netanyahu said that Israel “changed the equation not only during the days of the operation but also for the continuation.

“If Hamas thinks we will absorb a drizzle of rockets, they are wrong,” he added. “What happened in the past is not what will be…They always come out of their tunnels and their holes and brag, but they know what they brought upon themselves. They know what our abilities are and that we set them back by years.”

Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) chief Nadav Argaman said “this operation was not like the others,” and that it “could be a reality-changing operation; the rules of the game have changed.”

“Hamas before this operation is not like Hamas the day after,” Argaman added.

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