Zain Khalil and Lina Altawell<\/p>\n
05 October 2026\u2022Update: 05 October 2026<\/p>\n
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday threatened further assassinations in the Gaza Strip, while President Isaac Herzog warned of deepening internal divisions ahead of the country\u2019s upcoming election.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe still have tasks ahead of us, and we are determined to complete them,\u201d Netanyahu said during a ceremony at Mount Herzl cemetery in west Jerusalem, as three years have passed since the start of Israel\u2019s genocidal war on Gaza.<\/p>\n
He vowed that Hamas would not be allowed to govern Gaza.<\/p>\n
Since the beginning of the Gaza war, the Israeli army has assassinated hundreds of Hamas leaders inside and outside the occupied Palestinian territories in operations that have also killed civilians.<\/p>\n
Since October 2023, Israel’s war in Gaza has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians and injured over 175,000 others, according to Palestinian figures, also destroying about 90% of the enclave’s infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu has headed the current government since late 2022, which has been described as the most right-wing in Israel\u2019s history. He is also standing trial domestically on corruption charges that could carry prison sentences if convicted and has been wanted by the International Court of Justice since 2024 for war crimes in Gaza.<\/p>\n
Herzog, for his part, warned of growing divisions within Israeli society ahead of the Oct. 27 legislative election.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must also confront what is happening to us inside our own home,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn these days, in the midst of the election campaign, we must look at and heed the flashing warning lights \u2014 those pointing to dangerous disputes and deep division,\u201d Herzog added.<\/p>\n
The election will be Israel\u2019s first general vote since the Gaza war.<\/p>\n
Opposition parties have intensified coordination in an effort to replace Netanyahu\u2019s government through the ballot box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zain Khalil and Lina Altawell 05 October 2026\u2022Update: 05 October 2026 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-637111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}