Israel – Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed Wednesday in a speech on Israeli television that the country’s military was preparing to move into Gaza. Netanyahu would not elaborate on the timetable or other details. When a ground offensive will begin will be decided “by consensus” in the government’s special War Cabinet, he said. In addition to Netanyahu’s own Likud party and the other conservative and religious parties in the government, opposition leader Benny Gantz has also joined the crisis government. “We have already killed thousands of terrorists, and this is just the beginning,” Netanyahu said. /ritzau/